Horn Book Review

The latest in Milgrims early reader series about robot Otto, mouse Pip, and their creature friends begins with an exit: See Tweet flap. / See Tweet fly. / Fly, Tweet, fly. / Bye, Tweet, bye. While watching Tweet take off, Pip becomes inspired to try it (See Pip flap), but over the course of several pages-turns (and much flapping), the mouses feet remain firmly on the ground. Enter Otto, who constructs a remote-control drone. Pip is happy to operate the drone for a while (Fly, Pip, fly!), but soon becomes bored (Ho hum) and goes back to flapping. Otto has one more clever solution to offer, which allows Pips dreams to take flight. Milgrims use of extremely limited vocabulary provides effective support to new readersand the books comic timing is spot-on in the repetition and pacing. So, too, in the clean illustrations, where all that flapping is both understated and hilarious and where the warmth of Ottos heartmetal though it may beis apparent in the robots ginormous smile. elissa gershowitz January/February 2019 p 98(c) Copyright 2018. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.