![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Ages 8-up.Ĭopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. ![]() Selznick (The Houdini Box) appears to be aiming for profundity, but this odd tale feels flat. They travel to a remote cottage, an abandoned fairground and other suggestive settings, where they have odd adventures-it may escape the target audience that these fragmentary episodes bear some relation to the stories Lucy is said to have told to Ezra about their mother. Their magic enables the Robot King to fly out the attic window one night Lucy and her mute brother, Ezra, search for him by following a path of flying machines. These porcelain bits are enchanted: whatever machine they fall on (a phone, lamp, radio) takes to the air. There she builds the Robot King, and places their late mother's music box inside of it as a "heart." When the music box suddenly starts playing, the robot comes alive, slips off the table and shatters its knees, which are fashioned from china plates. Price New from Used from Hardcover 'Please retry' 100.00 36.94 Hardcover 70.30 Hardcoverfrom 70.30 2 Used from70. Out of the items they find, Lucy creates mechanical toys in the attic. The Robot King by Brian Selznick () Hardcover Hardcover 4.2 out of 5 stars8 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. From its opening in a moonlit cemetery, where a sister and brother are gathering stones, bits of glass and twigs near their mother's grave, this mannered fantasy is more portentous than rewarding. ![]()
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