Spare Parts
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Meet Rhoobart.
He's tarnished and tattered and, worst of all, his heart's broken. He'll have to go to the Spare Parts Mart, dig through their parts, and find a new heart.
Meet Poptart, the robot.
She's energetic and smart and has her own ideas about broken hearts.
"You just need a jump start!"
And that's how two robots who are nothing but spare parts meet and make each other whole in this riotous and rhythmic robot love story from the creators of The Ant and the Grasshopper and The Crocodile and the Scorpion.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Somewhere in a ramshackle, all-robot world that looks a lot like a post-human junkyard Earth, Rhoobart is having an existential crisis: "Tarnished and tattered,/ He felt nothing mattered." Thinking he needs to replace his secondhand heart, Rhoobart goes to the Spare Parts Mart, but not even an encounter with the gruff owner's version of a junkyard dog a robotic dragon named Mozart can make him feel less meh. What finally works is the company of a girl robot named Sweetart, who has "just the right amount of tarnish" and a can-do attitude. "You don't need a new heart, you just need a jump start," she tells Rhoobart before administering a literal shock to his system. The father-daughter Emberleys' (The Crocodile and the Scorpion) mechanized, industrialized world is weirdly beautiful and inventive, composed with a saturated palette and graphic elements in the shapes of jagged scrap, loose gears, and other flotsam (Rhoobart's facial features are made from a camera's iris, a rotary phone, and a zipper). But, robotic natures aside, the characters never really come to life. Ages 3 7.
