Sneezle Beezle, he Runs on Diesel

This is the touching and beautifully-illustrated story of the unexpected meeting of two boys, one human and one robot, and their instant love. Together the boys look forward to the promise of fun, adventure, pirates and treasure.
Sneezle Beezle is written in a quirky, bouncy rhyme that is amusing to children and fun for parents to read. The book features complex illustrations, big pictures with intriguing detail to draw in and fascinate young, exploring minds.
“Sneezle Beezle, he runs on diesel” was written by Bruce Laybourn for his son Dylan, who was abducted from his home in New Zealand to Turkey in 2007 when just four months-old.
In a reverse of what happened to Dylan, Sneezle Beezle, journeys to New Zealand for an apparently ordained adventurous life with Dylan.
In the years after his abduction to Istanbul, Bruce and Dylan had difficulty communicating as both had little knowledge of the other’s first language.
Stories that intrigued Dylan were a sure way to ensure his English improved so father and son could talk to one another.
Having devoured every English book he had crammed into his suitcase, Bruce decided to create his own stories for his little boy. Dylan particularly loved the stories where he was a principal character.
Sneezle Beezle has now become much more than a child’s imaginary friend. Dylan helped his dad create the character of Sneezle Beezle, even selecting the preferred “Sneezle” from the many submitted by illustrators from around the world who took part in an international competition to create an “impossibly endearing robot boy.”