ET meets Stig of the Dump in a page-turning adventure for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce & David Almond'A proper adventure story for all curious middle graders heartily recommended' The Bookbag Now shortlisted for the Essex Book Awards 2018! He wasn't an alien I was sure of that It was more like he'd walked in through an ancient door from the past except he was here in my bedroom & his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earth Twelve-year-old Kofi first spots the prehistoric human on a supermarket roundabout He is small & dark & curled into a tight ball His name is Rorty Thrutch & he has zero memory of how he ended up in the unexceptional village of Bradborough or why he's being hunted Kofi soon finds out that Rorty can do amazing things He can copy paste & delete objects using only the power of his mind This is the discovery of the century & mad greedy scientists will stop at nothing to track him down Kofi & best friend Janie are on a mission Not only must they protect Rorty but they have to find his missing girlfriend Pogsy Blue too Our prehistoric ancestors have crashed headlong into the 21st century & time is running out to save them THE STARMAN & ME explores where we have come from & where we are moving to
- it's about the magic of DNA the power of identity & the importance of caring for each other