PICTURE BOOKS
McCloskey, Shanda

Doll-E 1.0

(3) K-3 Charlotte's parents appreciate her ever-useful tech-savviness but worry about screen time, so they give their daughter a doll to encourage imaginative play. Nonplussed, Charlotte updates the "human-shaped pillow" into "Doll-E 1.0." McCloskey's appealing illustrations, in pencil and watercolor and edited in Photoshop, fuse old and new technologies, echoing the story line of bringing classic play into the gadget-focused present day.

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