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At the Spare Parts Mart, lonely Rhoobart meets fellow robot Sweetart, who says, "You don't need a new heart, / you just need a jump start!" She does the honors, leading to a fast friendship. The endlessly resourceful Emberleys' intermittently rhyming ode to oddity features collage-style art, here foregrounding found-object body parts: a rotary-dial eye, a scissors leg, etc.