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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri go together like macaroni and cheese. Peanut butter and jelly. Robots with.......more robots! Robo-Sauce is the hilarious story of a boy who decides that being a robot is WAY more fun than being a squishy human. It's a fourth-wall breaking book, a little more so than Dragons Love Tacos, and it flipped my expectations a bit. This would be a hoot to read one on one and even in a group of preschoolers or kindergartners.
Everyone knows how cool playing robots is! Except sometimes your family doesn’t think it’s quite as cool as you do. So what if someone offered you a magic and scientific potion that would let you play robot in a new way? Would you make it? Well, the boy in the book does and turns into a giant robot. But even then, none of the humans want to play with him. But the boy has a solution, more sauce! Very quickly, the story goes out of control as robo-sauce makes its way through the entire book, transforming everyone into robots. Readers can even change the book itself into a robot theme.
The collaborators of Dragons Love Tacos return with this striking robot-themed picture book. Rubin has created an adult narrator who sets things into motion by providing the robo-sauce recipe. The book feels traditional and readers will be fooled into thinking that the boy will soon realize that he doesn’t want to be a robot but a real boy. Happily, the book takes an unexpected twist and becomes something altogether different. The narrator is along to voice their objections to the changes, making it all the more delightful.
The art by Salmieri is done in subtle colors except for the robot lights and sauce which are a vivid neon orange. They are friendly and cartoon-like, filling the book with a sense of merriment. Even the transformation into a robot is a grand adventure filled with wild noises. When the book transforms into a robot book, the pages have already been doused in neon sauce and the pages have a completely different feeling about them. Very cleverly designed, this picture book embraces transformation at a whole new level.
A great read-aloud, this robot picture book will transform your story time! Appropriate for ages 4-6.
The collaborators of Dragons Love Tacos return with this striking robot-themed picture book. Rubin has created an adult narrator who sets things into motion by providing the robo-sauce recipe. The book feels traditional and readers will be fooled into thinking that the boy will soon realize that he doesn’t want to be a robot but a real boy. Happily, the book takes an unexpected twist and becomes something altogether different. The narrator is along to voice their objections to the changes, making it all the more delightful.
The art by Salmieri is done in subtle colors except for the robot lights and sauce which are a vivid neon orange. They are friendly and cartoon-like, filling the book with a sense of merriment. Even the transformation into a robot is a grand adventure filled with wild noises. When the book transforms into a robot book, the pages have already been doused in neon sauce and the pages have a completely different feeling about them. Very cleverly designed, this picture book embraces transformation at a whole new level.
A great read-aloud, this robot picture book will transform your story time! Appropriate for ages 4-6.
Cute, clever - I loved the bright orange of the robosauce, and the way it seemed to splash across the pages and make the story seem a bit more real.
I bought it as a gift, and haven't heard what the young recipient thought of it. But I think this might be a book as much for the parents as for the kiddo - at least for the first few readings.
I bought it as a gift, and haven't heard what the young recipient thought of it. But I think this might be a book as much for the parents as for the kiddo - at least for the first few readings.