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Robo-Sauce

Adam Rubin

Ages 4–8

Readers rate it 3.3 (3 on Hardcover)

Released 2015

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Robo-Sauce is a playful picture book that uses humor and transformation as its central conceit, making it suitable for early elementary readers. The story contains only mild peril—the transformation itself is presented as silly rather than genuinely threatening. Adam Rubin's whimsical style emphasizes imagination and creativity over darker themes, though some younger children might find the loss of identity or the rapid transformation unsettling.

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From the publisher

A special sauce turns a boy into a robot, and he then transforms everyone and everything into robots, including the book. A special sauce turns a boy into a robot, and he then transforms everyone and everything into robots, including the book.

Shelved under

  • Robots
  • Fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • Robots, fiction
  • nyt:picture-books=2015-11-08
  • New York Times bestseller
  • Toy and movable books
  • Specimens
  • Family life
  • Fantasy
  • Adventure
  • Science Fiction

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ISBN 9780525428879 · Dial Books for Young Readers

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