![]() ![]() ![]() Have the children try to imitate a robot voice. What do you think this story will be about?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: Seemingly inspired by sources such as Star Wars and Toy Story, the most important message of this lighthearted tale is that reading really is fun. The bold, funny, over-the-top text and art are the perfect complement to one another. Shannon's crazy, action-filled illustrations can be a little confusing, but also contain so much humor (including jokes that are absent from the text) that children will be happy to stick around and decode them. Robot Zot crashes into an alien environment (the suburbs), battles with fearsome kitchen appliances and a challenging transmitter (TV), and rescues the Queen of all Earth (a toy cell phone) before zooming off "to distant galaxies to bravely save more days." The text's rhythm is a bit odd, moving back and forth between prose and rhyme, but the short declarative sentences will make it approachable for early or reluctant readers, and the melodrama keeps it fun. ![]() Grade Level: 1st (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) ![]()
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