![]() In one to four spacious, sequential panels per spread, Jung develops both the plotline and the emotional conflict using smoothly modeled cartoon figures against monochromatic or minimally detailed backgrounds. At last, the exhausted robot plops itself down, then in response to its tormentor’s angry “Don’t say no, Bot!” stomps off in a huff. Jung crafts a robot with riveted edges, big googly eyes and a smile that turns down in stages to a scowl as the work is piled on. Row, Bot”-that turn from playful activities like chasing bubbles in the yard to tasks like hoeing the garden, mowing the lawn and towing her around in a wagon. Having put the robot together from a jumble of loose parts, the budding engineer issues an increasingly peremptory series of rhymed orders- “Throw, Bot. ![]() ![]() In this deceptively spare, very beginning reader, a girl assembles a robot and then treats it like a slave until it goes on strike. ![]()
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