Robots

Robots has an enormous amount of information packed into its small size! Each page is packed with bright and cheerful illustrations and photos. The “Super Explorers” are digitally illustrated super-characters and are used to describe and highlight the abundant photos. Some photos have captions, but most photos are described by the speech bubbles from the “Super-Explorers”. Every two-page spread covers a different robot topic or theme. Topics such as: “What is a Robot?”; “Robots in Space”; “Animal Robots”; “Educational Robots”; and “Competition” are just a few of the subjects covered. Every few pages there is a robot themed joke. There is neither a table of contents nor an index.

This is a great book that targets the younger readers. The publisher suggests the age range of 6-9, but the book would be of interest for those a little older as well. The lack of a table of contents (TOC) or index is not going to matter to the reader as the book is very easy to flip through, and readers can pick and choose what they want to read about. Where it would be nice to have had the TOC or index is when returning to the book to try to quickly relocate desired facts, but this omission does not significantly take away from the book.

Personally, I thought that the book was too long, but I am not the intended audience, and when I presented the book to children, I was convinced otherwise. There is a lot to learn, look at and enjoy in Robots.