In acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld’s first picture book for children, a little wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister—making for a memorable contemporary bedtime story.
For years, the king and queen tried desperately to have a baby. Their wish was twice granted when an engineer and a witch gave them a little wooden robot and an enchanted log princess. There’s just one catch, every night when the log princess sleeps, she transforms back into an ordinary log. She can only be woken with the magic words “Awake, little log, awake.”
The two are inseparable until one day when the sleeping log princess is accidentally carted off to parts unknown. Now it’s up to her devoted brother to find her and return her safely to the kingdom. They need to take turns to get each other home, and on the way, they face a host of adventures involving the Queen of Mushrooms, a magic pudding, a baby in a rosebush, and an old lady in a bottle.
This is acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld’s first picture book for children, inspired by a bedtime story he made up for his daughters. In his words, “I was trying to make a book inspired by three different sets of books: The books that I remember enjoying as a child, the books that I watched my daughters enjoying, and the books I enjoy now as an adult. I wanted the book to have its own quirky feeling but also to function like a classic bedtime story.”
Full-color illustrations created in pen and colored digitally.
Title alpha The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
Category Picture Books Plus
Pages Count 40
Genre Fiction
Topics Fairy tales. Kings, queens, and rulers. Princesses. Brothers and sisters. Robots. Logs. Witches.
Trim Size 11" x 9"
JLG Span Winter
Language English
Rights type Print
Publication date 2021-08-23
JLG Release Date Jan 2022
Minimum grade 0
Maximum grade 2
Reading level Elementary
Format Print
Picture Books Plus (Grades K-2)
Picture Books Plus
Picture Books Plus (Grades K-2)
For Grades K-2
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