Leo and the Alien The Story of the Alien Human Basketball Association

Leo and the Alien is a story about five boys who play basketball together. When they become bored with the traditional two-basket game, they invent a new game by adding a third basket and another ball, requiring three teams to play. Little did they know that an alien from the planet Zenon would observe the clever take on the traditional game. The alien approaches the boys and invites them to come to his planet to show the other aliens there how the game is played. The aliens love the game and the Alien-Human Basketball League starts an unlikely friendship between the people on Earth and aliens on Zenon.

Grandpa Phil lives in Brooklyn. He is a semi-retired New York City trial attorney who enjoys spending time with his five grandchildren.

Leo, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is a 4th-grader who likes math and Greek mythology. His favorite basketball player of all time is Kobe Bryant.

Yunyi Dai is a freelance illustrator specializing in Editorial and Children's Book Illustration. She has been traveling across the country since 2019 with the NPR Next Generation Radio as the Lead Project Illustrator.
Yunyi currently resides in Pasadena CA, with her partner and two cats named Cookie and Maki.