From the pages of the New York Times and the pen of Printz Award winner Gene Luen Yang comes a tale of math, aliens, and new siblings. Thaddeus doesn’t like his new sister (she’s not that smart— and she gets all the attention). He likes her even less when he discovers that she’s an inter-dimensional conduit for peace-loving aliens (who are totally lame—all they want to do is knit socks for the homeless and have sing-a-longs!). But what’s even worse is that no one will believe him about any of this! How is he ever going manage to grow up to become the President of Earth?
First serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Prime Baby is a laugh-out-loud look at sibling rivalry.
The Publisher's Weekly review:Anyone who’s experienced sibling rivalry--or anyone with a keen sense of humor--can enjoy this wittily pleasing graphic novel from the author of the National Book Awards finalist American Born Chinese. This slim volume centers around precocious youngster Thaddeus K. Fong, who gets it into his mind that his attention-stealing baby sister, Maddie, is actually an alien, and is bewildered when adults and his schoolmates don’t jump aboard his theory, even after he makes what he thinks is a conclusive video and puts it on YouTube. As Thaddeus tries to get people to take his theories seriously, he ends up making an even more incredible discov-ery about Maddie. His and the other characters’ antics are always amusing, but the ending and overall emo-tional tone is kindhearted, and it should come as no surprise that Thaddeus finds that Maddie is not so bad after all. The art has clear but not overly detailed characters and all the panels set up in neat, colored boxes.
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