Earth to Audrey by Susan Hughes

This is a whimsical little story about a boy who thinks a girl he sees is an alien. The girl, Audrey, is a free spirited, hippy child who earthily (for lack of better term) interacts with the world around her. The boy is intrigued by the girl so, since his friends are at summer camp, he befriends her and spends time with her. In one instance they were lying on the grass under a tree and Audrey says that she can feel the earth holding her, and the boy agrees, so she turns around and gives the earth a hug right back, these kinds of things.

Something that kind of bugged me about the book was how the author tried to bring about a climax with the big bang theory. I'm not upset about this because it was the big bang theory, but because the book up to that point was so whimsical and detached in a way, so I was expecting something less... grounded.. as a concluding climax. The author kind of ties it into the meeting between the boy and Audrey, nothing and then something, and tried to turn it into a metaphor of sorts, but I guess it didn't really do it for me.

The illustrations were great though and the book is worth the read overall.