{"id":819,"date":"2009-10-13T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2009-10-13T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:02:54","slug":"review-of-robot-zot-by-jon-scieszka-and-david-shannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Review of Robot Zot! by Jon Scieszka and David Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"robot_zot\"Robot Zot!<\/em><\/p>\n

by Jon Scieszka
\nillustrated by David Shannon<\/p>\n

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, 2009. 40 pages.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Here’s another book I got to hear the authors themselves read at the National Book Festival.<\/a> Okay, Jon Scieszka did the reading, but David Shannon did some awesome sound effects.<\/p>\n

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Jon Scieszka enjoyed reading the book so much, I can’t help but like it. When I brought it home, I still enjoyed it, and I think it will be an outstanding pick for Storytime — plenty of great sound effects, nice drama, and inside jokes to point out in the illustrations.<\/p>\n

The book opens with Robot Zot in his spaceship looking out at earth, ready to conquer.<\/p>\n

“No one stop Robot Zot.
\nRobot Zot crush lot!”<\/p>\n

But then as Robot Zot enters an earth building, ready to conquer, we see in the pictures that he turns out to be only a few inches tall.<\/p>\n

He enters an earth kitchen and believes the appliances are enemy robots which he must conquer. Indeed, he conquers them.<\/p>\n

But then a large sinister monster (the television set) offers a challenge in the next room. And in the children’s room he sees the bot of his dreams — a little girl’s toy cellphone. He must save her from the evil guardians (dolls).<\/p>\n

Throughout the book, we hear of Zot’s bold conquests from his perspective, while the big, bold pictures tell another story of a suburban household with plenty of appliances and a curious dog, who ends up getting blamed.<\/p>\n

Tremendous fun, and will definitely be featured at my next Storytime.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Find this review on Sonderbooks<\/a> at: www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/robot_zot.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robot Zot! by Jon Scieszka illustrated by David Shannon Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, New York, 2009. 40 pages. Starred Review Here’s another book I got to hear the authors themselves read at the National Book Festival. Okay, Jon Scieszka did the reading, but David Shannon did some awesome sound effects. Jon Scieszka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,59,18,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delightfully-silly","category-picture-book-review","category-readalouds","category-science-fiction","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}