title: The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot
author:  Margaret McNamara 
description: MARGARET MCNAMARA is the author of <i>How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?,</i> called "illuminating" by <i>Family Fun</i> magazine and recommended as "a first-purchase consideration" by <i>School Library Journal.</i> She is also the author of the popular Robin Hill School early reader series, one of which, <i>The Pumpkin Patch,</i> was awarded the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award-Gold. She lives in New York City.<br /><br />MARK FEARING has created award-winning editorial cartoons, animated shorts that have appeared on Nickelodeon and G4, and was a production manager for Walt Disney Television Animation. He is also the illustrator of<i> The Book that Eats People</i> by John Perry, called "irresistible" by <i>Publishers Weekly</i> and a "hilariously dark story" by <i>School Library Journal.</i> He lives outside Portland, Oregon. Visit him at MarkFearing.com.
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  Text copyright © 2011 by Margaret McNamara. Jacket and interior illustrations
  copyright © 2011 by Mark Fearing.
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schwartz & Wade Books,
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  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_  
  McNamara, Margaret. The three little aliens and the big bad robot / Margaret
  McNamara ; [illustrations by Mark Fearing].—1st ed.  
  p. cm. • Summary: Three aliens set off to find a new planet for themselves but
  soon Bork and Gork have forgotten all of