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Robot, Go Bot!
Step into Reading Comic Readers have action-packed panels and speech balloons! Simple, graphic layouts introduce emergent readers to the joy of comics. This Step 1 tells the story of a girl and a robot whose friendship is tested when one of them gets a bit bossy.
Step 1 Readers have big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, picture clues, and easy-to-decode dialogue.
*A Kirkus Reviews Best Books ofÌý2013 title*
Step 1 Readers have big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, picture clues, and easy-to-decode dialogue.
*A Kirkus Reviews Best Books ofÌý2013 title*
32 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2013
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Dana Meachen Rau
457Ìýbooks28ÌýfollowersDana Meachen Rau is an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books. She has written more than 100 books for children, many of them nonfiction in subjects including astronomy, history, and geography, as well as numerous biographies. She lives in Burlington, Connecticut, with her husband and two children.
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September 20, 2022
Read for my toddler's bedtime.
May 18, 2020
I know, I know - it's an early reader. The "story" basically consists of some verbs followed by the word Bot . . . but it was SO cute, and I can't resist a robot.
So there!
So there!
August 23, 2013
Robot, Go Bot! put a smile on my face, and I think it will do the same for our kindergartners and first graders. Kids will connect to the tale - I mean, who wouldn't want a robot they could order around to do their chores and play with them? Especially if you built that robot yourself!
They'll love the bright illustrations which focus the action on the little girl's joy, bossiness and frustration. Wook Jin Jung has a background in animation and graphic design, and you can clearly tell the influences.
But what my students will love best about Robot, Go Bot! is that they'll be able to read the story themselves, with the simple words, rhyming text and picture support. The story is told through very simple dialog: "Go, Bot!" "Throw, Bot." "Row, Bot." "Sew, Bot." As the little girl gets more and more demanding, the robot is clearly not pleased. Like our own little kids, these new friends have to figure out a way to compromise and ask each other to play nicely.
Dana Meachen Rau's spare text is complemented by Wook Jin Jung's minimalist cartoon illustrations, making this text a welcome sight for new readers. Let's hope they have more adventures for Robot in the works!
They'll love the bright illustrations which focus the action on the little girl's joy, bossiness and frustration. Wook Jin Jung has a background in animation and graphic design, and you can clearly tell the influences.
But what my students will love best about Robot, Go Bot! is that they'll be able to read the story themselves, with the simple words, rhyming text and picture support. The story is told through very simple dialog: "Go, Bot!" "Throw, Bot." "Row, Bot." "Sew, Bot." As the little girl gets more and more demanding, the robot is clearly not pleased. Like our own little kids, these new friends have to figure out a way to compromise and ask each other to play nicely.
Dana Meachen Rau's spare text is complemented by Wook Jin Jung's minimalist cartoon illustrations, making this text a welcome sight for new readers. Let's hope they have more adventures for Robot in the works!
March 5, 2016
Great for teaching kids to use context clues!
July 14, 2020
Good news about this book: it's in comic book form with very easy words for readers 3-6. The VERY good news: despite the title this book has nothing to do with The Gobots, which back in the 80s was a cheapo imitation of the Transformer dolls. Nope, this little bot is the creation of a young girl who puts him to work using a clever rhyming scheme to get him "automated": "Go, Bot! Mow, Bot! Row, Bot! Don't say No, Bot!" Which of course Bot does, in a sense, and tries running away to hide until the girl realizes she did him wrong and decides to make up for it. At least Bot is a forgiving robot, which we need after countless warnings from hundreds of sci-fi novels of vengeful machines who let their artificial intelligence take over and do away with humans as a whole. Who needs that anymore? I mean there's a reason why Terminator 6 didn't work well with its audience. But this book just might.
Three stars
A transformative bot book that's more than meets the eye!
Three stars
A transformative bot book that's more than meets the eye!
October 10, 2018
Robot, Go Bot!
by Dana Meachen Rau
This graphic novel is great for young students. It would be great for first time readers, because it does not have many words and the words it does have are simple and repetitive. It is mainly a picture book, designed like a comic book. The Illustrations tell the story and look like cartoon characters. The illustrations are very bright and colorful, which help to gain the readers attention. The white borders around the pictures helps to create the comic book feel. The writing throughout the book explains what the robot is doing. This book is great for kids who can not read or are just beginning to learn to read.
by Dana Meachen Rau
This graphic novel is great for young students. It would be great for first time readers, because it does not have many words and the words it does have are simple and repetitive. It is mainly a picture book, designed like a comic book. The Illustrations tell the story and look like cartoon characters. The illustrations are very bright and colorful, which help to gain the readers attention. The white borders around the pictures helps to create the comic book feel. The writing throughout the book explains what the robot is doing. This book is great for kids who can not read or are just beginning to learn to read.
November 28, 2018
Robot, Go Bot!: A Comic Reader by Dana Meachen Rau is the book you want to go read! Read it yourself then go read it to children. This book made me smile and was so fun to read all the way through. This story tells the relationship of a young girl and a robot she likes to boss around and play with. With simple words, minimal pages and bright and detailed illustrations this book can be read by anyone! It’s perfect for beginner readers. You will learn about some tough but important life lessons like sharing, good manners and how to treat others. Give it a read!
May 9, 2021
This early reader book is about a little girl and her robot friend. When the girl gets a little too demanding for the robot he runs off and the girl has to go find him and ask him to come home. I liked this book because of the simple yet pretty art and the valuable lesson it teaches kids about friends, you need to respect your friends and be nice to them or they won't want to be your friend. I would recommend this book to early elementary age or pre-elementary, kids who are just starting to read on their own.
November 12, 2018
A little girl enjoys doing things with her robot, but when the girl give the robot more and more work, will it still like her?
Starting the kids young on the robot uprising here. Thankfully, the girl and the robot work out their differences pretty easily in the leveled reader graphic novel. There are just one to three words per page and it is in rhyme, making this a great read for kids just starting to read. And the illustrations and topic are fun too. Hand this to little scifi robot fans.
Starting the kids young on the robot uprising here. Thankfully, the girl and the robot work out their differences pretty easily in the leveled reader graphic novel. There are just one to three words per page and it is in rhyme, making this a great read for kids just starting to read. And the illustrations and topic are fun too. Hand this to little scifi robot fans.
December 2, 2016
Do you know how much I absolutely detested "Dick and Jane" books? I thought they were awful even when I was 6 yrs old. This book reminds me of those, the repetition, the boring story. Yes it has nice bright colored illustrations, yes it is about a robot, but I just felt that it underestimates children. Boring...
June 4, 2017
this, like the other books in the series, is a very well written book to help your new reader feel confident they are understanding reading. The use of alliteration really helped my little reader when he was unsure how to pronounce a word as he could just look at the words surrounding it.
November 16, 2018
A girl and her robot are having a fun day until the robot is forced to do all the work while the girl plays. Lesson: be fair to your friends.
April 7, 2019
A super easy graphic novel. Easy text and predictable rhyming pattern make this reader accessible to most beginning readers.
November 30, 2020
A little girl builds a robot. They play together, but the girl treats the robot as a machine, not a friend. When the robot rebels, the little girl rethinks her actions.
February 27, 2017
Robot, Go Bot! tells the story of a young girl, and her robot friend. This friendship is put to the test as the girl becomes more and more demanding. After the robot runs away, the young girl learns and grows to realize she needs to be a better friend to have the robot as a friend too. This book is a very very easy read that students just learning to read could handle. There are a lot of rhymes in the book that helps with the reading and sound awareness in early stages. The images provide good context clues to the reader about the story to help them understand. This would be a good book to use in the classroom to teach good manners in playing with others and making friends. A good introduction to comic books and graphic novels at an early age.
December 19, 2016
From boxes of parts, a little girl builds a robot. She and the robot do lots of things together - go, row, sew, and glow. When she asks the weary robot to mow the lawn, and then to pull her in her wagon , though, he runs out of steam and runs away. It is only when she learns to be more fair that the robot returns to the little girl wanting to be friends.
Robot, Go Bot! is a Level 1 easy reader in a new series of comic readers published by Random House’s imprint, Step Into Reading. I was excited to request it from Edelweiss because it is by Dana Meachan Rau, author of one of my favorite beginning reader books, Flip Flop!. Though the language is simpler in Robot, Go Bot!, Rau really impressed me once again with her execution of the story.
In preparing my beginning reader story times, I am always interested in finding ways to explore different word families. It can be difficult to find books that accomplish this effectively, without becoming too boring or nonsensical (like Tick Tock Clock, for example.) This book provides a great opportunity for kids to learn about the “ow� sound in words like glow, mow, tow, and row, while also enjoying the pleasures of a story about a well-loved topic. There are never enough robot books out there to satisfy kids who are interested in them, so this book will be like gold to anyone who works with kids, especially in preschool or kindergarten.
Another great thing about this book is how visual it is. The words are few and far between, but the pictures by Wook Jin Jung tell just as much of the story as the text. The little girl’s facial expressions change as she becomes more bossy. Her nose lifts just a bit more into the air, and her mouth takes on the look of a sneer. The robot, conversely, appears sadder and more downtrodden the longer he is forced to obey the girl’s whims. Kids who can’t yet read the words, or who like to practice taking “picture walks�, will be able to tell the entire story - complete with the characters� feelings - just from visual cues. These visual cues will also support their understanding of the story as they decode each word. For these reasons, I think the concept of a comic reader is a great idea, and I hope this book will become as popular as its counterparts published by Toon Books.
Robot, Go Bot! is a very basic book for the earliest readers. Adults who aren’t sure how to use a comic reader with children can find a helpful tutorial at the start of the book, which introduces the vocabulary of the comics format (panel, caption, speech balloon, and gutter) and shares advice for reading comics with kids.
Robot, Go Bot! is a Level 1 easy reader in a new series of comic readers published by Random House’s imprint, Step Into Reading. I was excited to request it from Edelweiss because it is by Dana Meachan Rau, author of one of my favorite beginning reader books, Flip Flop!. Though the language is simpler in Robot, Go Bot!, Rau really impressed me once again with her execution of the story.
In preparing my beginning reader story times, I am always interested in finding ways to explore different word families. It can be difficult to find books that accomplish this effectively, without becoming too boring or nonsensical (like Tick Tock Clock, for example.) This book provides a great opportunity for kids to learn about the “ow� sound in words like glow, mow, tow, and row, while also enjoying the pleasures of a story about a well-loved topic. There are never enough robot books out there to satisfy kids who are interested in them, so this book will be like gold to anyone who works with kids, especially in preschool or kindergarten.
Another great thing about this book is how visual it is. The words are few and far between, but the pictures by Wook Jin Jung tell just as much of the story as the text. The little girl’s facial expressions change as she becomes more bossy. Her nose lifts just a bit more into the air, and her mouth takes on the look of a sneer. The robot, conversely, appears sadder and more downtrodden the longer he is forced to obey the girl’s whims. Kids who can’t yet read the words, or who like to practice taking “picture walks�, will be able to tell the entire story - complete with the characters� feelings - just from visual cues. These visual cues will also support their understanding of the story as they decode each word. For these reasons, I think the concept of a comic reader is a great idea, and I hope this book will become as popular as its counterparts published by Toon Books.
Robot, Go Bot! is a very basic book for the earliest readers. Adults who aren’t sure how to use a comic reader with children can find a helpful tutorial at the start of the book, which introduces the vocabulary of the comics format (panel, caption, speech balloon, and gutter) and shares advice for reading comics with kids.
June 19, 2013
In this most simple of graphic novels, a little girl builds a robot and when she presses the big red button, it comes to life. The robot happily plays with bubbles with her, plays ball and floats in a boat. But then, the little girl gets more demanding and has the robot sewing, being a horsie, planting a garden, and mowing the yard. Finally, the robot has had enough and leaves. While the girl searches for him, she realizes that she has to be a good friend in order to have a good friend.
Rau has written a very simple book here with only minimal words that often rhyme for even simpler reading. It is the pictures that really tell this story completely. Done in comic style, they have rounded panels. Yet they also have the feel of picture book illustrations with their bright colors and playful feel. The softness of the illustrations also invite very young children to read. I appreciated the choice to have the main character a girl, since so many robot books have male characters.
Simple and playful, this most beginning of graphic novels is inviting to little children and has the appeal of robots as well. Appropriate for ages 4-6.
Rau has written a very simple book here with only minimal words that often rhyme for even simpler reading. It is the pictures that really tell this story completely. Done in comic style, they have rounded panels. Yet they also have the feel of picture book illustrations with their bright colors and playful feel. The softness of the illustrations also invite very young children to read. I appreciated the choice to have the main character a girl, since so many robot books have male characters.
Simple and playful, this most beginning of graphic novels is inviting to little children and has the appeal of robots as well. Appropriate for ages 4-6.
April 21, 2015
1.) The pictures are the main component for this book. There is one panel per page, so the pictures are nice and big, making the story easy to follow. Few words are used and the words/phrases used rhyme to tell the story of a girl that creates a robot to play with.
2.) This graphic novel is described as a "ready to read" level 1. It is for beginning readers-the words in the story repeat and also rhyme. This book would be good in a book bundle with the theme or robots or with the theme of rhyming books. Beginning readers could read this book with ease!
3.) At the beginning of this graphic novel, parents/teachers are given tips on how to read a comic or graphic novel to their child. Tips include having the children read the speech balloons while you read the captions and asking children questions about how the characters are feeling (and how does the child know the character feels that way?)? An idea for an extension activity is to have the child/children create their own comic showing what could happen after the ending of the book.
2.) This graphic novel is described as a "ready to read" level 1. It is for beginning readers-the words in the story repeat and also rhyme. This book would be good in a book bundle with the theme or robots or with the theme of rhyming books. Beginning readers could read this book with ease!
3.) At the beginning of this graphic novel, parents/teachers are given tips on how to read a comic or graphic novel to their child. Tips include having the children read the speech balloons while you read the captions and asking children questions about how the characters are feeling (and how does the child know the character feels that way?)? An idea for an extension activity is to have the child/children create their own comic showing what could happen after the ending of the book.
June 19, 2014
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This is a really good first step book for parents and students. The front page gives an explanation on how the book is made up, giving all the terms like panel, gutter, speech balloon and caption. The book shows how the girl builds robot and then puts him to work. I would have liked to seen more story on the eventual role reversal when the girl finally understands how unfair she has been.
2:
"Robot, Go Bot!" would work well for advanced Preschool to Kindergarten readers. The simple story line and repetitive word use would be great tools to engage students. The story could work well with a character lesson like taking turns or how to be a good friend. I could also see a Science/Art activity with students making their own robots out of various materials.
(2013, July). Booklist.
This is a really good first step book for parents and students. The front page gives an explanation on how the book is made up, giving all the terms like panel, gutter, speech balloon and caption. The book shows how the girl builds robot and then puts him to work. I would have liked to seen more story on the eventual role reversal when the girl finally understands how unfair she has been.
2:
"Robot, Go Bot!" would work well for advanced Preschool to Kindergarten readers. The simple story line and repetitive word use would be great tools to engage students. The story could work well with a character lesson like taking turns or how to be a good friend. I could also see a Science/Art activity with students making their own robots out of various materials.
(2013, July). Booklist.
April 25, 2015
This K-2 introductory graphic novel uses simplistic rhyme and brightly colored graphics that allow for social expansion for all ages. With only one to two graphic boxes per page, this is a great book to introduce the concept of graphic novels to young developing readers.
The little girl builds the robot out of spare parts and then they engage in all sorts of activities where the robot essentially takes on the role of the little girl's slave from the moment the little girl says the words "Go Bot!" the robot is tasked with playing all the games she wants to play, doing all the activities she wants to do, "Throw bot, Blubble Blow Bot, Row Bot..." and when the robot rebels the little girl essentially throws a fit.
This book could be used to teach social niceties like manners, friendship, turn taking, or the ever important "it's not always about you" etc.
The little girl builds the robot out of spare parts and then they engage in all sorts of activities where the robot essentially takes on the role of the little girl's slave from the moment the little girl says the words "Go Bot!" the robot is tasked with playing all the games she wants to play, doing all the activities she wants to do, "Throw bot, Blubble Blow Bot, Row Bot..." and when the robot rebels the little girl essentially throws a fit.
This book could be used to teach social niceties like manners, friendship, turn taking, or the ever important "it's not always about you" etc.
June 29, 2013
A clever and adorable little girl builds a robot out of scraps she finds laying around. Bot willingly does whatever the girl asks him to do at first. When she won't stop being bossy he runs away and hides. Realizing her mistake she looks for Bot until she finds him. Then she lets him have some fun for a change.
This is the first in a great new series by Step Into Reading - A Comic Reader. The picture are big, bold and colorful, sure to catch the eye of the earliest readers. The text is simple and in large speech bubbles making it very easy to follow along. I am looking forward to more of these!
This is the first in a great new series by Step Into Reading - A Comic Reader. The picture are big, bold and colorful, sure to catch the eye of the earliest readers. The text is simple and in large speech bubbles making it very easy to follow along. I am looking forward to more of these!
October 29, 2014
This says it's a level 1 book, but in reality it's not even a level 1 book (compared to other level 1 books I've read) It's VERY VERY basic. The entire book is made up of words like robot, go, Bot, bubble, throw, row, ho, sew, glow, so if you are working on the 'ow' sound with your child this would be a great self esteem builder for them. Two to three words per page. It's not much of a storybook (which that is what I expected and why my rating is so low) but the illustrations show how you should share and how hurt people's feelings are by not taking turns. I think a young child could understand the 'story' even without reading the words simply by the great illustrations.
December 14, 2019
I read this book with a group of 2-year-olds and their caregivers. It is a beginner book and not really designed for this purpose, but I wanted to do a robot theme, and robot books for this age group are hard to come by. It is a nice story about a girl who learns to treat her robot with more respect - but it seemed a bit strange to me, because the robot was much more like a person than a robot (getting hot and tired, getting frustrated and angry). That said, the message is good, and it has a happy ending.
I used it again another year with two other groups of 2-year olds, and I think it went even better this year.
I used it again another year with two other groups of 2-year olds, and I think it went even better this year.
November 6, 2014
This book is rated a level one, but I do not know if I should even have that ranking. It is very basic having simple text that rhymes and repeats. This book follows a little girl and her robot, she begins with giving him simple commands and he eventually leaves because he feels used and is tired of being bossed around. When he little girl finds him she apologizes by pushing him on a swing.
This book would be good if trying to teach students the "ow" sound because of its repetition throughout.
The pictures in this book are brightly colored and follow along nicely with the story.
This book would be good if trying to teach students the "ow" sound because of its repetition throughout.
The pictures in this book are brightly colored and follow along nicely with the story.
February 19, 2015
The basic story arc was good enough, that a girl bosses her robot around until the robot doesn't want to play any more, with the girl learning to act better. However, the book is billed as an Early Reader book, but since every single word (evidently) must rhyme with "bot", it gets a little confusing. A lot of the story needed to be inferred from the pictures, such as the robot's increasing dissatisfaction with being bossed around all the time. My preschooler didn't really get it.
July 25, 2013
An easy reader written in comic book format. The book opens with a note from Jennifer and Matthew Holm to parents about comics and how to use them with children.
The story is about a girl who builds a robot and in rhyming text gives him a ton of chores to do. When the robot revolts, it's time to learn to be a better friend. PreK-2.
The story is about a girl who builds a robot and in rhyming text gives him a ton of chores to do. When the robot revolts, it's time to learn to be a better friend. PreK-2.
September 21, 2013
With very limited vocabulary made up of a series of rhyming commands, a little girls bosses her new robot until it gets tired of doing all the work. Then the little girl regrets her high-handedness and makes it up to Bot in a very sweet ending. I loved the pictures, and thought they created many opportunities to talk about the characters and what they are feeling.
Very easy reader (1)
Very easy reader (1)
November 6, 2014
Go, Bot. Throw, Bot. Get in the boat and row, Bot! This has the feel of a classic, even though I'm not wild about the illustrations. A little girl gives simple rhyming commands to a robot until it feels ill-used and abandons the girl. She finds him and makes up for her dictatorial leanings by pushing Bot on the swing. A great early reader.
March 3, 2016
Guided Reading Level / Fountas and Pinnell Level E. There is very little text per page. Usually at most 4 words - usually 1-2 words. It essentially shows variations of the Long (O) sound in print (e.g. sew, go, glow, whoa, home) which could be useful practice. The pictures are cute but the story didn't capture my daughter's interest.
January 2, 2015
I really enjoyed this easy reader. The illustrations are nice and vibrant, and the comic book layout is very appealing. The storyline is very simple, allowing young readers to easily grasp the meaning of friendship.
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