Books like Robots, Robots, Everywhere!
By Sue Fliess
For the kid who points out every machine on the road and asks what it does, this book hands over a whole world of them, dressed up in rhyme. Bright, buzzing, and playful, with a bouncy rhythm made for reading out loud.
The numbers 1 through 100 race each other up an apple tree in a rhyming chant, piling higher and higher until bumblebees threaten trouble at the top.
Seven quirky dinosaurs — including zooming Zoomer, sleepy Dozy, and weepy Sob — take turns starring in their own tiny tabbed story, each with a personality all its own.
Three huntsmen set out into the forest to shoot game, but at every turn they mistake what they see — a ship, a house, a pincushion — for something else entirely.
A wacky crew of hippos, cats, pigs, and cows count from a quiet One all the way up to a LOUD LOUD LOUD Ten — then back down to quiet One again.
A sound-making wonder named Mr. Brown moos like a cow, hoos like an owl, buzzes like a bee, and even chews gum like a grum-grumming hippo, daring readers to make every noise right along with him.
On a scorching day, Junie and Jake, Poppa, and the baby set off for the lake in a rattling, wheezing car that doesn't go fast and doesn't go far.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
A student gets stuck with a science curse after his teacher claims poetry is everywhere in science, and suddenly every rhyme in his head turns into a poem about amoebas, black holes, or the food chain.
A garbage truck brags about his nightly job — rumbling through the dark on ten wide tires, gobbling up trash and loving every stinky second of it.
Determined to make his wife the best birthday cake ever, a grandfather sets out to bake a whopper of a chocolate cake — and turns the whole kitchen into a glorious disaster.
A young boy builds a whole traffic world out of everyday objects — records, shoe boxes, crayons, dandelions — and sends cars, helicopters, and fire engines zooming through it.
A crew of silly robots builds the alphabet letter by letter, each one clanking, beeping, and buzzing its way through the ABCs with plenty of goofy robot noises.
