Stephen Kroll spoke at schools and conferences all over the world. He was married to the journalist, Kathleen Beckett, and they lived in New York City and an old carriage house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. When he was not writing or traveling, he played a lot of tennis and walked around looking at everything.
Joey adores this book. He's so into robots these days, and the fantastically fun illustrations in Otto are irresistible to him. But the rhythm of the rhyming text is off--painfully off. I would like to see someone re-write the book exclusively with words that convey robot noises. Now that would be fun to read.
I would give the text zero stars, except that Otto's expression "beep bup" earns one star from me. I give the illustrations four stars.