What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Andy Buckram's Tin Men
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. Youth novel circa 1969 about a boy who builds 3 robots out of tin cans which become animated by lightning. [s]
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I think Andy Buckman's Tin Men is it! I'll track down a copy to confirm. Many thanks to both who supplied that answer!
Glad to help out!This was a popular one from the time period.
The cover showing a boat rings a bell. I'd forgotten that detail but a rowboat or similar was involved. I think you hit the nail on the head. I just need to track down a copy. Many thanks! I'll mark it solved if I can figure that out! (Today's are my first posts). And thanks for all your answers on the other posts as well!
You're welcome! Hopefully we can track down the others.
Apparently this was printed on unobtanium because everyone wants $100+ for it. I did find a copy on openlibrary.org / internet archiveand am reading it.Thanks again!
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"I am a very inventive boy,"" says Andy Buckram with the immodesty of completely accurate self-assessment. He's sure to take his place as a favorite among the ingenious boys of junior fiction just as the author's Newbery winning Cady Woodlawn is among spunky girls, in a novel that is poised on a fine comic line between SF and fantasy. Andy's first robot was Campbell, put together from soup cans but, ""making robots is something like eating peanuts. It does no good to say, 'this is the last peanut, ' because you are sure to want just one more."" So Andy builds two more robot men and one robot lady, gradually increasing their size and capabilities. While Campbell turned out to be useless and babyish, Bucket was designed to carry water. Lily Belle was an experiment in mechanical babysitting and gave tongue at odd moments with three records embedded in her midriff--a lullaby, a yodelling chorus and a stump speech by Senator Quackenbush. Supercan was made for heavy work, especially for rowing the leaky boat that Andy kept putting off mending. The Buckram farm was in flood country and when the storms came, Andy was isolated from his parents but when lightning electrified the robots, he set off in his leaky boat, rescued a girl classmate, recovered his baby cousin Dot from a barndoor floating past and repaired to an island where he must constantly supervise his active but purely mechanical tin crew. Here the adventure begins and the fun continues."
I just finished reading it. Definitely the right one!
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The subject line has every detail I can remember. Not much.
Seems like they just run out of power at the end.