The Jumbalees in the Friendly Alien: An Alien story for Kids ages 4 - 8 illustrated with colour cartoons

By Chris Evans

In this story the Jumbalees have a strange encounter with an Alien when his spaceship crashes to Earth. He soon becomes a friend and goes to school with the Jumbalees where they almost get into trouble with a teacher. They have fun together but the Alien misses his parents and would like to return to his planet.

This series of illustrated stories for kids are about the Jumbalees, a group of colourful young creatures that live and play together on an exotic island close to the ocean. They behave like human children, working together even when they disagree as they make their way through exciting and sometimes scary adventures. Their social interactions help prepare them for dealing with others and the world around them and their loyalty and humour allow them to overcome the obstacles they face. The colourful cartoon illustrations in these storybooks make reading more fun for kids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christoons Publishing
• Release date: May 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9780957107090

Chris Evans

In 1969 Chris completed a degree in 3 dimensional design at Leeds College of Art. In the following year he did a one year post-graduate course at Bristol University in Radio, Film and Television Production obtaining a Distinction grade. As part of the course he wrote and made a short animated cartoon film called, "Come into my Parlour," that was exhibited at the 1970 Paris Biennale and the Edinburgh Film Festival. He started his career in art as an animator in 1970 with a company called Halas & Batchelor and over the past 40 years has worked as a key animator on many TV commercials and series, including, “Superted,” “The Beatrix Potter collection,” “The Animals of Farthing Wood,” “The Forgotten Toys,” “Snailsbury Tales,” and more. He has also animated on the feature films, “Watership Down,” “The Twelve Tasks of Asterix,” and, “Lucky Luke and the Daltons.” In 1998 he directed his first animation series that was aired on the BBC called, “Little Monsters,” based on a set of illustrated children’s books by Tony Garth. Chris has since worked as Animation Director on other television series including, “The Likeaballs,” “The Dorkhunters from Outer Space,” “Zorro,” and, “Horrid Henry. Chris originally wrote and designed the Jumbalees stories for kids as an animated film project. The illustrated storybooks for children are an excellent medium to present the Jumbalees.

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ISBN 978-0-9571070-9-0

First published in Great Britain in 2012

Written and illustrated by Chris Evans

Layout by Gareth Evans

Copyright Chris Evans 1999

International copyright secured. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published.

For more information on the Jumbalees please visit www.jumbalees.com

It was a lovely star-filled night with not a cloud to be seen. A good night to be looking out for shooting stars and that was exactly what the jumbalees were doing.

There’s one! shouted Monty, pointing up at a thin silver line that shot across the dark sky.

Ah, quick make a wish,