Robot Rumpus - Softcover

Sean Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849396604 ISBN 13: 9781849396608

Publisher: Andersen Press, 2014

Synopsis

When Mum and Dad go out for the evening they think they''ve left their daughter in safe hands with robots designed to get her to bed! There''s Cook-bot to make great spaghetti for dinner, Clean-bot to do the washing-up, Wash-bot for bath time and even Book-bot for a bedtime story. What could possibly go wrong?

''There isn''t an illustrator in Britain who uses a more intelligent visual storytelling language.'' TES

About this title

About the Author

SEAN TAYLOR is the author of many children's books for many different ages. His picture books include the multi-award-winning When A Monster is Born, The World Champion of Staying Awake and Crocodiles Are the Best Animals of All, which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He lives partly in England and partly in Brazil where his wife is from.

ROSS COLLINS graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a First in Illustration. In the same year he won the Macmillan Children's Book Prize. He now has over eighty titles to his name including Busy Night which won the White Raven Award and Billy Monster's Daymare which won the Royal Mail Book Award. He lives in Glasgow.

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3–When a little girl's busy parents enlist a series of robots to put her to bed, chaos ensues. Things are going fine for a while: dinner is delicious, the kitchen cleanup goes well, and bath time begins without a hitch. But when Wash-bot spots a dangerous animal in the water–the little girl's toy crocodile–it goes into emergency mode. Wash-bot slips into Dress-bot, who crashes into Teeth-bot, and Clean-bot becomes so overwhelmed that it starts to dress Dry-bot in the little girl's pajamas. Even Book-bot starts smoking before it can read the little girl her bedtime story. Amid the commotion, the child steals away and puts herself to bed. All is quiet until her parents come home and find their house in a state of disaster, the robots running amok. The book is framed by sequential images inside the front and back covers that mimic a robot catalog, with taglines describing each bot's specialty. The back cover has the same spread, but each bot's advertisement now has a red “Withdrawn for Technical Reasons” across it. This funny and high-energy tale is illustrated with pen-and-ink and bold watercolors.–Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University, Farmville, VAα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849396604
• ISBN 13: 9781849396608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32