Robot, Go Bot! (Step into Reading Comic Reader)

by Dana Meachen Rau, Wook Jin Jung (Illustrator)

Overview

Step into Reading Comic Readers have action-packed panels and speech balloons! Simple, graphic layouts introduce emergent readers to the joy of comics. This Step 1 tells the story of a girl and a robot whose friendship is tested when one of them gets a bit bossy.

Step 1 Readers have big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, picture clues, and easy-to-decode dialogue.

*A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2013 title*

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375870835
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/25/2013
Series:	Step into Reading: Step into Read/ComicRdr(Step1)
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 3.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	BR (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

DANA MEACHEN RAU is the author of over 50 books for young readers. She has never met a robot, but sometimes wonders if she'll discover one when opening a big box. You can visit her at DanaMeachenRau.com.

Editorial Reviews

Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2013:"A straightforward tale of conflict and reconciliation for newly emergent readers? Not exactly, which raises it above the rest."

From the Publisher

In this deceptively spare, very beginning reader, a girl assembles a robot and then treats it like a slave until it goes on strike. Having put the robot together from a jumble of loose parts, the budding engineer issues an increasingly peremptory series of rhymed orders-- "Throw, Bot. / Row, Bot"--that turn from playful activities like chasing bubbles in the yard to tasks like hoeing the garden, mowing the lawn and towing her around in a wagon. Jung crafts a robot with riveted edges, big googly eyes and a smile that turns down in stages to a scowl as the work is piled on. At last, the exhausted robot plops itself down, then in response to its tormentor's angry "Don't say no, Bot!" stomps off in a huff. In one to four spacious, sequential panels per spread, Jung develops both the plotline and the emotional conflict using smoothly modeled cartoon figures against monochromatic or minimally detailed backgrounds. The child's commands, confined in small dialogue balloons, are rhymed until her repentant "Come on home, Bot" breaks the pattern but leads to a more equitable division of labor at the end. A straightforward tale of conflict and reconciliation for newly emergent readers? Not exactly, which raises it above the rest. (Easy reader. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews