#picturebooks #review
Robopop is a great book for demonstrating to
children that we are all different and that the cookie-cutter
alternative to personalities is not always the most attractive.
Written by Alice Hemming and illustrated by James Lent, it tells the
story of Dylan and Daisy, embarrassed by their dad's inability to
fall into one of the 'Dad' archetypes. He's an inventor and so seeks
to show his offspring that 'Dads don't come in a box' by showing them
the most extreme version of the alternative: Robopop – a metal
rhyming automaton with no sense of social rules or limits. Daisy and
Dylan soon realise that the dad that they already had was the best.
The illustrations are humorous and the details are fun to pick out;
the real Dad has his eye on Daisy and Dylan the whole time, but can
your little ones spot him in the crowds? A great fun bedtime book,
one which made my four year old ask if we can build a robot to play
football with tomorrow. Oh dear...
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