Ryan Sias

Zoe, a young girl, asks Robot, her large robot, to go mountain climbing with her. But when she leads Robot to the mountain, all Robot can see is a pile of pillows. Zoe realizes she must teach her Robot how to pretend.
Zoe tries several ways to teach Robot, but nothing seems to help. Then, almost spontaneously, Robot begins to speak of a pillow as a fluffy cloud and Zoe and Robot are happy.

The book is a graphic novel, with simple text and bright illustrations.

“’Ta-daa! Welcome to Mt. show more Pillow,’ says Zoe.

‘Robot does not see a mountain,’ says Robot.

‘You need to pretend,’ says Zoe.

‘Zoe, Robot is a robot. Robots do not know how to pretend,’ says Robot.” show less

Kind of cute. I like how the kid is really trying to help the robot learn to pretend. My kid had fun acting out the robot voice.

A completely literal robot learns how to pretend, allowing him to recover from a climb up a pillow mountain by resting on a fluffy cloud. Awesome.

Zoe wants to play pretend, but her friend Robot can't seem to get the hang of it...or can he?

A cute, easy reader graphic novel to illustrate the fun in playing pretend!

Recommended.