The Space Ship Under The Apple Tree is a children's
science fiction
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book series by
Louis Slobodkin
Louis Slobodkin (February 19, 1903 – May 8, 1975) was an American sculptor, writer, and illustrator of numerous children's books.
Life
Slobodkin was born on February 19, 1903, in Albany, New York. He attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of De ...
, and also the name of the first book of the series.
Louis Slobodkin
at ISFDB
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The books were published by Macmillan
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The series involves a Boy Scout
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named Eddie who meets an alien
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** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
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in his apple orchard who comes from the planet Martinea. The series humorously depicts their friendship as Eddie tries to explain the strange things that humans do and why.
Series
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The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree
' (1952)
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' (1958)
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' (1962)
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' (1968)
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' (1972)
Eddie also appears as a Cub Scout in an earlier book by Slobodkin named ''Bixxy and the Secret Message'' (1949).
References
External links
Louis Slobodkin's books
Series of children's books
Children's science fiction novels
American children's novels
1952 children's books
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