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36 pp.
| Viking |
September, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-670-05905-6$15.99
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Each of four robots has a special function: Blink cooks, Zinc repairs things, Blip works outdoors, and Zip cleans. A sudden rainstorm results in the now short-circuited quartet switching household tasks to calamitous effect. Written in sometimes clumsy couplets, the overlong story features illustrations that give the robots (like the Teletubbies, they are red, purple, green, and yellow) a pleasingly retro look.