The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Scieszka, Jon

Robot Zot!

40 pp. | Simon | September, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-6394-3 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by David Shannon. Robot Zot faces such fearsome creatures as a blender, coffee maker, and toaster before rescuing his lady (a toy cell phone) from the jaws of "Earth's most fearsome Commander General" (a black Lab puppy). In this humorous mock-epic, the tension between the robot's clueless heroics and the domestic setting is made manifest in appealing acrylic illustrations, all down close at Zot's perspective.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2009