Otto

by Steven Kroll, Ned Delaney (Illustrator)

Otto the robot accompanies his small friend to school and ends up being chased by the entire class when he runs away with their orange juice.

Genres: Childrens

42 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1983

About the author

Stephen Kroll spoke at schools and conferences all over the world. He was married to the journalist, Kathleen Beckett, and they lived in New York City and an old carriage house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. When he was not writing or traveling, he played a lot of tennis and walked around looking at everything.

Reviews

[Starbubbles · Rating 4 out of 5]

O kept asking about robot cookies. I thought the robot in this ate cookies. He did not.

But, it was wonderful rereading a book I loved as a kid. A solicitor came to our door one day and my mom purchased a set of books from them, and this was part of that. I am sure she feels that money was well spent, considering we still have it 30+ years later and after 6 moves where we packed up the whole house.

Anyway, the book is about a robot named Otto who started to malfunction and cause all sorts of trouble. Some of the sentence structure is off, but it is still enjoyable.

[Katherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Joey adores this book. He's so into robots these days, and the fantastically fun illustrations in Otto are irresistible to him. But the rhythm of the rhyming text is off--painfully off. I would like to see someone re-write the book exclusively with words that convey robot noises. Now that would be fun to read.

I would give the text zero stars, except that Otto's expression "beep bup" earns one star from me. I give the illustrations four stars.