The Robot and the Bluebird

The Robot and the Bluebird
Author: David Lucas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Birds
ISBN: 9781842707326

There was once a robot with a broken heart, good for nothing but expiring slowly on a scrap heap. Then one winter's day a migrating bluebird lands on his shoulder, too exhausted to go further. The robot offers her shelter in the place where his heart used to be, and her warmth and singing and companionship stir up the last glimmer of energy the robot has; he carries her across snowy wastes to the warm south, whereupon his strength dies out finally. And there he still stands today like an old hollow tree, home every year to singing birds.

The Story of a Blue Bird

The Story of a Blue Bird
Author: Tomek Bogacki
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1998-04-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780374371975

Curiosity overcomes fear A little blue bird is afraid to learn to fly, but is still very curious about the world beyond his nest. "Mama, mama, what is out there?" he asks. "Nothing," his mother replies. "Now go to sleep." But the little bird can't stop thinking about what his mother said. What is this nothing? Finally, curiosity draws the little bird from his nest into the wonders of the great outside world - and he learns to fly. When he returns, his family asks him, "What happened?" "Nothing!" replies the little blue bird, happily. With his characteristcally expressive and richly textured illustrations, Tomek Bogacki - whose fables for the very young have been likened to those of Leo Lionni - shows how a little bird, in his search for nothing, finds everything.

Hello, Robots

Hello, Robots
Author: Bob Staake
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Nothing can stop hard-working robots, Blink, Zinc, Blip, and Zip, from performing their many household tasks until they get caught in a downpour.

Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?

Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?
Author: Mike O'Connor
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 080701253X

A collection of humorous Q&As about everything you've always wanted to ask about birds and birding Mike O’Connor knows bird watchers as well as he knows birds. He knows that if you’re even slightly interested in identifying birds or attracting them to your backyard with a feeder, then you’ve also had your share of strange and silly questions about birds and their sometimes inexplicable behavior. In Why Do Bluebirds Hate Me?, O’Connor applies his deep knowledge of all things avian to answer the questions that keep birders up at night. Questions like · Should you clean your birdhouses? · Do swallows have a feather fetish? · How much does it cost to run a heated birdbath? · Is drinking coffee bad for birds? Other questions O’Connor covers range from the practical (Should I rotate the seed in my feeder?) to the quirky (Why are vultures eating my vinyl screen door?) to the just plain adorable (Are those birds kissing or feeding each other?). And he also explains why bluebirds just don’t seem to like some people.

When It Snows

When It Snows
Author: Richard Collingridge
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250028310

When it snows in town overnight, a young boy follows the footsteps into a new winter wonderland with snowmen, tiny fairies, and thousands of elves.

Robot Rumpus

Robot Rumpus
Author: Sean Taylor
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1467764760

When a young girl's parents go out for the evening, they think they've left their daughter in safe hands with robots designed to get her to bed! There's Cook-bot to make great spaghetti for dinner, Clean-bot to do the washing-up, Wash-bot for bath time, and even Book-bot for a bedtime story. What could possibly go wrong?

The Tale of the Whale

The Tale of the Whale
Author: Karen Swann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534493956

A child and a whale embark on a beautiful journey together in this lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book about friendship, hope, and love for the world around us in the vein of The Fisherman & the Whale and Cynthia Rylant’s Life. Where land becomes sky and sky becomes sea, I first saw the whale and the whale first saw me. A child joins a friendly whale for a magical journey of discovery. They sail the blue ocean, dance with dolphins, and tail-splash seagulls. But the child also sees an ocean filled with plastic trash. And that inspires a promise of help, for the whale and all earth’s creatures.

Robomop

Robomop
Author: Sean Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101627468

This is Robomop, a hardworking robot who's good at his job, which is cleaning...well, yes, the public restroom. But it's not all mopping, slopping, rubbing, and scrubbing. Robomop also does a wicked honky-tonk dance to the window washer's radio, and he dreams of seeing the sun and sky. So when he's carried outside one day, Robomop believes his wish has come true at last. Has it? Well one thing is for certain: for this little robot, finding his place in the world means never giving up trying.

K is for Knifeball

K is for Knifeball
Author: Avery Monsen
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1452121265

An adult parody of children’s alphabet books, offering horrible—but hilarious—advice, from the authors of All my friends are dead. In the humorous vein of Go the F**k to Sleep comes a laugh-out-loud collection of bad advice that turns the children’s alphabet book on its head. Adorable, illustrated characters lead readers down a path of poor decision-making, and alphabetical, rhyming couplets offer terrible life lessons. O is for opening things with your teeth, F is for setting Daddy’s wallet on fire, and R is for Raccoon (but definitely not for rabies). With plenty of playfully disastrous choices lurking around every corner, this compendium of black humor may be terrible for actual children, but it’s perfect for the common-senseless child in all adults. Plus, this is the fixed-format version, which looks nearly identical to the physical book. Praise for K is for Knifeball “Great fun for adults. The humorous illustrations, done in the style common in kids books, greatly add to the fun.” —Geek Alerts

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
Author: Prudence Shen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 159643659X

The unlikely friendship between basketball team captain Charlie and robotics club president Nate is challenged when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders over funding that will either pay for new uniforms or a robotics competition.