Billie Builds a RoboCorn

by José Avelino Gilles Lourenço, James Braithwaite (Illustrator)

Overview

A hilarious picture book character has hit the scene! Meet Billie: she's wily, she's precocious, she's funny and she will not take no for an answer . . . but even Billie has to make new friends sometimes!

Billie is relentlessly resourceful. Nothing can keep her down!

Band has no instruments? Easy. She’ll make some.

Dad's Zoom meetings too boring? Piece of cake. She'll liven them up with a dramatic reading from her favorite book. 

Moving away from her house and her favorite things? A breeze. She'll pack with the best of them.

Friends all left behind? No problem. She'll just create one! Ta-da! His name is Robocorn, and he's a majestic robot unicorn capable of deep conversation, limbo, jumping over the sun and making pancakes. What more could a person need?

Certainly not human friends . . . right?

This hilarious picture book features a lovable and irrepressible new character certain to take the world by storm. No one can resist Billie, and Robocorn . . . well, Robocorn is truly one of a kind. Definitely in a good way. For sure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781774884058
Publisher:	Tundra Book Group
Publication date:	04/14/2026
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

JOSÉ AVELINO GILLES CORBETT LOURENÇO is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Toronto with his wife and two small daughters. His feature writing/directing debut, Young Werther was featured at TIFF and now has wide release; his short film, Romance Language, won a BravoFACT production award, premiered at Palm Springs, jogged along from festival to festival, then sprinted online as a Vimeo Staff Pick. Other recent projects include the feature screenplay Massey ’53 for Rhombus Films and a feature screenplay for Simon Kinberg's Genre Films at Fox. A graduate of McGill University, José's career began in print journalism. He was a copy editor and columnist at the Toronto Star, after which he transitioned into broadcast television producing at MuchMusic and the CBC.

JAMES BRAITHWAITE is an Oscar-nominated illustrator, animator and writer based in Toronto. Recognition for James's animation work includes an Emmy, a Best Animation Short award from the American Film Institute and a presentation at the Guggenheim. His delightfully strange animation and art direction can be seen in an eclectic range of recent projects, from hit Canadian cartoons to a Smithsonian commission about the insanity of Thanksgiving to an animated docuseries for the UFC, which is a sportsfight league. He has two daughters.