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Deep in the heart of a rubbish dump, a little broken robot woke up . . . Mio can't remember where they came from or how long it's been, but they know they're not meant to be there. They go in search of their memories and the home they once knew, only to discover that everything has changed. A stunning picture book with a beautiful message about loving yourself and knowing there is always a place where you belong.

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A joyful remedy for our times - an uplifting eco-fable of repair, renewal, and second chances. * Mikey Please, The Café at the Edge of the Woods * A battered humanoid robot wakes up amid a vast, rust-colored wasteland of rubbish and discarded technology in this heavily Toy Story- and WALL-E-inflected picture book by Todd-Stanton (The Comet). To determine how it arrived there, the robot enters an adjacent futuristic city, triggering a series of memories. The white figure recalls once being gifted to a pale-skinned, dark-haired human child-multiple frames show their joyful days together-and even finds the family before realizing that it's been replaced with a newer model. Heartbroken, the damaged robot resigns itself to the rubbish heap, but two pale-skinned human scavengers-a mother who wears an eye patch and her daughter-rescue it, whisking the protagonist to their decidedly unfuturistic home in an idyllic mountain valley. They lovingly rejuvenate the robot, using a mélange of jubilant hues and helping it to understand that ""even the most broken things can always be saved."" Themes of consumerism, obsolescence, and redemption are grounded in genuine emotion throughout this cinematically rendered picture book about finding one's people and one's place in the world. Ages 3-5. * Publisher's Weekly *

A joyful remedy for our times - an uplifting eco-fable of repair, renewal, and second chances. * Mikey Please, The Café at the Edge of the Woods *

Author Information

Joe Todd-Stanton is from Brighton and grew up drawing with his mum. He studied Illustration at the University of the West of England, afterwards moving to London where he currently lives. His debut The Secret of Black Rock, won the 2018 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Illustrated category and The Comet won the Yoto Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award 2023. He has written and illustrated many books for Flying Eye Books, as well as illustrating books for other authors.

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