When a girl puts together a robot from a kit, she makes a new friend! But she learns a lesson in what friendship means when the robot gets fed up with her orders. The simple text of rhyming and repetitive sounds and words makes this story accessible to the earliest readers.
Robot, Go Bot!
- Ages 4-6
- Illustrated by Wook Jin Jung
- Step Into Reading Series
- Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013
About the Book
Awards and Reviews
Kirkus Starred Review
Kirkus’s Best Children’s Books of 2013
ALSC 2014 Notable Children’s Book
Bank Street 2014 Best Books of the Year
Kindergarten List of NYC Reads 365 literacy program
“A straightforward tale of conflict and reconciliation for newly emergent readers? Not exactly, which raises it above the rest.” Kirkus STARRED REVIEW April 15, 2013
“There’s a nice rhythm to the mostly rhyming text (in speech balloons), which, while not strictly decodable, is full of sight words and simple enough, at just zero to four words per page, for new readers to parse. What’s more, they’ll want to read the story because the events are so familiar and relatable,…but with a welcome, giggle-inducing dose of the bizarre.” The Horn Book September/October, 2013
“Beginning readers will appreciate the brevity of the text and the predictability of the rhyming phrases. An appealing choice for young readers and robot fans.” Booklist July 1, 2013
