Doll-E 1.0
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A STEM-friendly tale of a girl and the doll she upgrades to be her new friend, for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Rosie Revere, Engineer.
Charlotte's world is fully charged! With her dog at her side, she's always tinkering, coding, clicking, and downloading. She's got a knack for anything technological--especially gadgets that her parents don't know how to fix! Then, she receives a new toy that is quite a puzzle: a doll! What's she supposed to do with that? Once she discovers the doll's hidden battery pack, things start to get interesting...while her faithful canine sidekick wonders if he'll be overshadowed by the new and improved Doll-E 1.0! With a little ingenuity and an open mind, everyone can be friends in this endearing, modern tribute to the creative spirit of play.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Charlotte is a little tech whiz (her "head was always in the cloud"), but while her parents appreciate having the personal IT support ("Easy fix, Mom. Just press this, this, and this") it's clear they're worried, too; readers see them watching an alarmist news report, "Are Your Kids Too Techy?" They surprise Charlotte with the lowest-tech doll possible, which, to her mind, is like giving her a "human shaped pillow." Then Charlotte learns that the doll has a battery-driven voice box even if the doll only says "Mama." This discovery, coupled with an unfortunate doll dismemberment by Charlotte's terrier, enables the heroine to discover the fun to be had in the middle ground between analog and digital. Debut author McCloskey overcrowds her book with a few too many tech-themed nudges and winks (even Charlotte's dog is named Blutooth). But her pencil and watercolor cartoons have a fetching exuberance, and the bespectacled, brainy Charlotte, who never doubts her talents, is an admirable whirlwind of energy and ideas. Ages 4 7.
