The Girl and the Robot Heart

(Hardback)

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Glorious artwork combines with lyrical poetry in this Christmas-themed celebration of storytelling.

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.

Reviews

'Holiday magic via a surrealist lens in this love-extolling picture book... Naif-style mixed-media art has a dreamy quality that mirrors Hoskinss verse, making for an inventive read' - Publishers Weekly
'The poetic text is perfectly matched with delicate, nave 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 books heart soars far beyond its yuletide setting' - Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

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.