Me and My Alien Friend
​Cosmic Poems About Friendship

Written & illustrated by Ed Boxall

Publication date: October 2018
Ages: 6+ years
Format: Paperback / 225 x 165 mm / 64 pages
ISBN: 978-1-909991-82-8
Rights available: World
UK retail price: £7.99

Me and My Alien Friend is Ed Boxall’s first full-length collection of children’s poetry.

The book is full of all sorts of friends: best friends, changing friends, absent friends, animal friends, imaginary friends and even a friend who’s a “Thing on a Springy String”.

Here, friends adventure together: discovering, exploring and sharing life’s happy hills and lonely dark hollows. The “Alien Friend” poem returns like a chorus throughout the book: a boy sits on the moon with his 38-toed alien friend, looking at our world from a peaceful distance - observing, thinking, dreaming.

Throughout the poems and drawings, friendship is gently celebrated as a universal experience that can cross every divide.

Resources & extras

Ed has made lots of brilliant videos to go with the book. Here are a couple, and you can find more over on Troika’s YouTube channel - including a few fun, energetic performances with words, songs, pictures - and Ed on guitar!

By the same author & illustrator