The Girl and the Robot Heart

Set in a sleepy town on Christmas Eve, the story begins with a conversation between a girl and her toy robot, who wants to know what's inside a human heart. Describing it as a series of rooms filled with storybooks, the girl sets about building the robot a heart of its own by telling stories about the quiet little town she calls home.

With rich vocabulary and a rhythmical structure, this tender story has a powerful message that will warm the hearts of readers all year round.

'Holiday magic via a surrealist lens in this love-extolling picture book... Naif-style mixed-media art has a dreamy quality that mirrors Hoskins’s verse, making for an inventive read'
Publishers Weekly

'The poetic text is perfectly matched with delicate, naïve sketches brightened with pops of amber and red… Like the heart, the images pulse in a rhythm that expands to embrace the outside and contracts again to focus on the girl and her loving home… This book’s heart soars far beyond its yuletide setting'
Kirkus Reviews

Book Details

Format:

Quarterbound (no jacket)

Size:

27.0 x 20.5 cm

Extent:

48 pp

Illustrations:

48

Publication date:

24 October 2024

ISBN:

9780500652893

About the Author

Neal Hoskins is a recent graduate from Bath Spa University MA in creative writing. His fiction has appeared in The Stinging Fly and Ambit Magazine. He works in publishing and lives in Poland. This is his first picture book. Monika Vaicenaviciene is an award-winning Lithuanian illustrator and picture-book creator with an MfA in Visual Communication from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Her non-fiction picture book, What is a River? has won multiple awards and has sold in 14 languages.

🎄✨ 《女孩與機器人心臟》 ✨🎄
一本充滿魔幻氛圍的聖誕故事，結合了精美的插畫與詩意的文筆，帶給讀者一個溫暖心靈的故事之旅。

故事發生在一個安靜的小鎮，聖誕夜的傍晚，女孩和她的玩具機器人展開對話，機器人想知道人類的心臟裡藏著什麼。女孩回答說，心臟就像一間間充滿故事書的房間。於是，她開始為機器人創造一顆屬於它的心臟，透過分享這個小鎮的故事，讓機器人也能感受到愛與溫暖。

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這本書擁有豐富的詞彙和韻律感強烈的結構，散發出無盡的溫暖與愛意，不僅適合聖誕節，也能在任何時候溫暖你的心。✨
讓這本書陪伴你在冬季的夜晚，與家人一起分享這個充滿愛與溫情的故事吧。💖