![]() Even the end’s domestic tranquility lasts only until Cathode spots the little box buried in the bigger one’s packing material: “TWINS!” (This book was reviewed digitally with 9-by-22-inch double-page spreads viewed at 52% of actual size.)Ī retro-futuristic romp, literally and figuratively screwy. ![]() They roll hither and thither through neatly squared-off panels and pages in infectiously comical dismay. Wiesner’s robots display his characteristic clean lines and even hues but endearingly look like vaguely anthropomorphic piles of random jet-engine parts and old vacuum cleaners loosely connected by joints of armored cable. Kudlinski Penguin, Juvenile Nonfiction - 32 pages 8 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified The ancient. ![]() “You’re such a good big sister!” warbles her frazzled mom. As a squad of helpline techies and bevies of neighbors bearing sludge cake and like treats roll in, the cluttered and increasingly crowded scene deteriorates into madcap chaos-until at last Cath, with help from Roomba-like robodog Sprocket, stages an intervention by whisking the hapless new arrival off to a backyard workshop for a proper assembly and software update. Robo-parents Diode and Lugnut present daughter Cathode with a new little brother-who requires, unfortunately, some assembly.Īrriving in pieces from some mechanistic version of Ikea, little Flange turns out to be a cute but complicated tyke who immediately falls apart…and then rockets uncontrollably about the room after an overconfident uncle tinkers with his basic design. ![]()
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