Annette Simon (1)

Enter the bright, exciting, silly world of robots while learning about different geometric shapes! Two robot friends go back and forth adding more and more silly costumes on top of the last, so that they go from being robots to being robot zombies, to robot zombie Frankensteins and so on. There is a minimal amount of text on each page, but it builds up as the book goes on and then dies down again. A great deal of repetition is used; each page builds on the ones before. Similarly, the show more illustrations become more and more complicated as more and more shapes are added on top of each other to create new costumes or disguises. The illustrations are made up of geometric shapes, which seem to be a big focus in the book as all of the shapes used are labeled in the back of the book. These computer-generated illustrations are interestingly sized and placed on the white space; they are curious, so the eyes are drawn to them. The extremely silly progression of ideas is something that both children and adults can laugh at—readers will enjoy the ridiculously random sequence of events. show less

Illustrator Annette Simon creates a picture book with images created digitally using QuarkExpress. They are both simplistic and abstract with all their bright colors and angles. Two Robot friends engage in a fun and silly game of dress up one up manship. Although the words are spare, I think older children would appreciate it more in a story time because of the humor. I'd recommend this for 1st grade and 2nd grade read alouds or 1-to-1 storytimes for ages 3

This book gets the prize for best title, to start. Let's see now how the story stacks up. (Later) yes, novel. Surprising. Not even terribly sure that I can describe the plot. Robots, of course. And burping, I think. Somehow burping and counting. Burping and reciting the ABCs. A friendship seems to develop. It's a bit confusing, but I like it.

Two robots are continuously trying to one up each other. The illustrations are bright and colorful and mostly consist of basic shapes which could lead to a fun craft. Pie is also awesome.