Robot dog / Mark Oliver.
Record details
- ISBN: 156148489X
- ISBN: 9781561484898
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Publisher: Intercourse, PA : Good Books, 2005.
Content descriptions
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.5 0.5 126053. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Dogs > Juvenile fiction. Machine theory > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Fiction. Juvenile works. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Scenic Regional.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Scenic Regional-Union | E OLI (Text) | 300560487+ | Easy Book | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Warrenton | E OLI (Text) | 3005594645 | Easy Book | Available | - |
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The Horn Book Review
Robot Dog
The Horn Book
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Scrap, a defective robot-dog toy fresh from the factory, takes up residence in a junkyard with some other reject toys; they all envy the non-reject neighborhood dogs who return home to their owners at day's end. The story is slight, but Oliver knows to keep it brief. The illustrations of the machinery, rendered in bright colors, will interest most kids. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly Review
Robot Dog
Publishers Weekly
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Oliver, illustrator of Foley and Jem, has found his niche in technology-themed graphics. In this sentimental tale, he imagines a factory of sooty-black, pot-belly-stove machines that fabricate identical silver dogs. The toy pooches are packed in corrugated cardboard boxes with see-through plastic windows (duplicated by this paper-over-board book's brown, die-cut cover) and shipped to a faraway village. No humans appear, but their presence is implied: "The dogs were very happy because all dogs, even robot dogs, want an owner." At the thought of an owner, one metallic puppy feels "too excited to sit still" and slips off the conveyor belt. According to the book, he is dented in his fall, although no dent is visible in Oliver's technically proficient paintings. Instantly, a disembodied voice announces, "Scrap!" The pup, who decides that Scrap must be his name, slides down a gray tube into a junkyard. Ultimately Scrap and other discarded mechanical dogs build a creepy but amiable Frankenstein robot so they can have a master. Oliver, whose end pages mimic blueprints for the perfect robot dog, superficially revisits the "unwanted toy" formula. Shaun Tan's recent The Lost Thing takes the theme of industry and garbage to a more thoughtful conclusion. Ages 3-7. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved