William Kotzwinkle
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
What do you do when you're lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures?
You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend...
Filmaker STEVEN SPIELBERG and novelist WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE together create a magical story about two unforgettable friends: a gentle being from another world who is stranded on Earth, hunted, afraid and alone....and a ten-year-old boy who finds him and takes him home.
Format
PaperbackDate Acquired
19th October 1982Retail Cost
£1.50Number of Pages
246Year Read
1982
E. T.: The Book of the Green Planet
by William Kotzwinkle.
Now, at last, we see where E.T. comes from -- who he really is and what his own distant world is like.
Return with him to the Green Planet, whose inhabitants are the supreme masters of all growing things in the galaxy. Wander through their immense enchanted gardens, to which E.T. has returned, with Gertie's geranium, a fondness for junk food, and an all-consuming love for the earthling Elliott and his family. But things on Earth have changed since E.T. left. Elliott has begun to notice the opposite sex, and his cherished memories of E.T. are losing ground to thoughts of a girl in his class who wears a rhinestone ponytail clip. More important, he seems to have forgotten E.T.'s teachings of gentleness and peace.
He is about to become the most terrible thing of all," observes E.T. from three million light years away. "He is about to become -- Man.
Format
PaperbackDate Acquired
17th June 1985Retail Cost
£1.75Number of Pages
224Year Read
1985