Boy meets a robot named Bot and they quickly become best buddies in BOY + BOT, written by Ame Dyckman and illustrated by Dan Yaccarino. They run and play and walk on logs until Bot accidentally gets switched off. Boy thinks Bot is sick and tries many ways to make him feel better, like covering him with a blanket and feeding him. Boy is so tired after his long day, that he falls asleep. When Bot powers on, he finds the Boy asleep and thinks he’s broken. So, Bot then tries to fix the Boy, the only ways that he knows how. This is such a fun book to read and very funny. I thought it was silly the ways the Bot wanted to fix the Boy. I really like the illustrations.
Mom loves this book. She says it’s short and sweet and filled with heart. Throughout the book you can hear Bot say “affirmative,” which we now say around my house too instead of ‘yes’ sometimes.
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Build a Robot— Color, cut, and glue the pieces to make your own robot
Practice Patterns— Cut out the robots and arrange into the shape that’s show
Trace the letter R — Practice tracing your upper case R and lower case r — like in the word robot!
HAVE SOME BOOK-INSPIRED FUN! Grab an adult and play this fun “Robot Says” game.
CRAFT VIDEO: Watch this easy craft video and follow along to make your own robot from a left over toilet paper roll!
TALKING POINTS:
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What was your favorite part of the book? Why?
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What happens that Bot stops responding to Boy?
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What does Boy try to do to help Bot?
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How does Bot power on again?
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What does Bot see when he’s back on?
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What does Bot do help?
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Why does the inventor say to stop?
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Have you ever tried to help someone? What did you do? How did it feel to help? What happened?
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What does ‘affirmative’ mean?
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Is there anything in this book that you’d like to talk about?
USEFUL INFO FOR GROWN UPS:
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Book: BOY + BOT
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Written by Ame Dyckman
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illustrated by Dan Yaccarino
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Age Range: 2-5
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Hard Cover: 14pages
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Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition (October 11, 2016)
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ISBN-978-1101936887
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