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48 pp.
| Dial |
October, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42887-9$18.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Daniel Salmieri.
An omniscient narrator supplies a top-secret formula called "BOOM" to a robot-costumed boy, and lo! he becomes a robot. Unsurprisingly, things get out of hand ("We're turning everything into robots? What kind of a story is that?"). Clever visual details and neat paper engineering, which ultimately allows readers to transform the look of the book, don't expand this single-minded story very much.