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A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother's vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away.Tags
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Truly enriches the movie story. Wonderful insight into the thoughts and feelings of all the characters, but especially E.T., Elliot and Mary. Her internal dialogue relates experiences as a mother that are both amusing and touching. Have turned to this story many times over the years, not only for the humor but also for the comforting humanity of the characters, including E.T!
Being one child from the 80's who actually read the book but missed the film, (eventually seeing the movie as an adult) I can highly recommend it to all fans of all ages.
Being one child from the 80's who actually read the book but missed the film, (eventually seeing the movie as an adult) I can highly recommend it to all fans of all ages.
Nothing special but fun for a quick bit of brain candy.
E.T., the little visitor from the stars, Earth is interesting for E.T.,but he is gone in a friend. So he wants to go home. He meets an Earth boy, elliott and goes to his home. Elliott loves E.T. and wants to help him. But there are many scientists in the streets of the little town. Ther are looking for E.T..
I love this story like many people. This story is famous.My favorite is words E.T. said at the time of parting.E.T. is so cute! I want to watch this movie.
I love this story like many people. This story is famous.My favorite is words E.T. said at the time of parting.E.T. is so cute! I want to watch this movie.
#58 in our old book database. Not rated.
The story is very famous but I have never watched the movie.The story is so excited.The last scean is emotion.
E.T. is alien.He is found by Elliott who is a boy.
E.T. is alien.He is found by Elliott who is a boy.
Gertie can't believe it. Her brother Elliott has an extra-terrestrial being in his room! Gertie promises not to tell anyone, and when Elliott asks her to help him get E.T. home, she's ready. But what can she do to help
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William Kotzwinkle was born in 1938 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Rider College and Pennsylvania State University.He worked as an editor and writer in the 1960s. William Kotzwinkle is an accomplished author who is best known for his book of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, but who has produced a range of work for both adults and show more children that often transgresses genre boundaries and the distinction between serious and popular fiction. Beginning as a children's writer with The Fireman, he then published novels for adults such as Hermes 3000, The Fan Man, and Queen of Swords, which began to establish him as an original and distinctive novelist. But it was Doctor Rat that made his reputation as a powerful fantasy writer with a sharp satirical edge. The novel focuses upon laboratory rats whose spokesman, the Doctor Rat of the title, eventually escapes from the vast laboratory where experiments on his fellow-creatures are taking place, and whose adventures are interwoven with shorter tales told by animals of different kinds who finally try to form a whole that will make humans more peaceful and benign. But they are all killed. William Kotzwinkle is a novelist and poet, who is known for his broad range of style and subject. He is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. He lives with his wife, author Elizabeth Gundy, in Maine. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977. He published The Million Dollar Bear in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Original title
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Original publication date
- 1982
- People/Characters
- E.T.; Mary Taylor; Elliott Taylor; Michael Taylor; Gertie Taylor; Harvey (dog) (show all 7); Keys
- Important places
- USA
- Related movies
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982 | IMDb)
- First words
- The spaceship floated gently, anchored by a beam of lavender light to the earth below.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He went into the misty light, with his geranium.
- Publisher's editor*
- Kuczka, Péter
- Original language
- English
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