{"id":20240,"date":"2013-11-02T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20240"},"modified":"2013-11-02T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T21:00:02","slug":"review-of-robomop-by-sean-taylor-and-edel-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20240","title":{"rendered":"Review of Robomop, by Sean Taylor and Edel Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Robomop<\/em><\/p>\n

by Sean Taylor
\npictures by Edel Rodriguez<\/p>\n

Dial Books for Young Readers, 2013. 40 pages.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

This book is too fun. It\u2019s a story of a Robomop with personality. He works cleaning a bathroom in a basement. He is completely stuck, because Robomops can\u2019t get up stairs.<\/p>\n

He comes up with clever plans to try to escape. Run over a potato chip wrapper so it sticks in his vent and makes an awful noise. Try to hide in a man\u2019s duffel bag. Dance to the honky-tonk music the window washer plays, in hopes someone will sell him to the circus.<\/p>\n

But they didn\u2019t.
\nOh dear. I was completely gloomy, and in a sad pickle.
\nHow was I ever going to see the world, feel the sunshine, and fall in love?
\nI was stuck down there, well and truly, with an awful case of Robomop-basement-bathroom-blues.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But when the Inspector of Public Restrooms brings in a brand-new Bio-Morphic Bellebot Cleanerette, the Robomop finally leaves the basement restroom \u2013 to land in a trash can. But that\u2019s not the end for him, and the happy ending is lovely.<\/p>\n

The pictures in this book are done with print-making and a few muted hues, looking vaguely old-fashioned. The expressions are choice, and the picture when Robomop gets so excited at meeting the Cleanerette is sure to elicit roars of laughter. \u201cI was overcome with excitement, so much that I had an odd small accident.\u201d (He\u2019s upside-down in a toilet.)<\/p>\n

This book holds a story with a beginning, middle, and end that includes a character readers won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n

seantaylorstories.com<\/a>
\nedelrodriguez.com<\/a>
\ndrawger.com\/edel<\/a>
\npenguin.com\/youngreaders<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n

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