Book Review: Boy and Bot

Boy and Bot by Ame Dyckman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I picked this one up based on the colorful, clean illustrations alone - and it turned out to be a good selection, as my daughter found them just as captivating as I did!

The story is cute - a boy meets a robot in the woods and they have fun playing until the bot's power switch gets turned off. The boy believes the bot is sick and takes it home to make it feel better. But when the bot's power switch is turned back on, the boy is asleep. The bot mistakes this for a malfunction and takes the boy home to fix him. It's cute, clever symmetry that parents can appreciate (and two particularlly witty bits about oil and an instruction manual had me laughing out loud!) as well as children.

My 2-year-old didn't quite grasp the comedy, but she thoroughly enjoyed listening to the story and following along with the pictures.




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