I received a copy of this title from Fremantle Press for review.
Ten Second Synopsis:
Sally Tinker is an inventor extraordinaire, so when her baby brother doesn't measure up to her expectations, she creates her own. But is a robotic sibling really all it's cracked up to be?
This fun graphic novel is chock-full of humour, chaos and unexpected bugs in the program. Sally is a girl who knows what she wants and even has the skills to create it, while her baby brother is....well, a bit of a messy, stinky, noisy baby. Sally, with the best of intentions, takes it upon herself to invent an improved version of a little brother, but doesn't count on her invention learning from the real thing. Of course disaster strikes and Sally comes to learn that perhaps the good things about having a living, breathing sibling outweigh some of the bad - although maybe not the stinky bits. The narrative parts of the book are broken up here and there with some text-heavy diagrams but for the most part, this is exactly the kind of book that will draw in the more reluctant base of young readers due to the saturation of illustrations, the interesting fonts and the easy-to-digest chunks of text. Add to that the humour of stinky nappies, exploding machines and general mayhem and you'd have to agree that this book has everything that young readers love, all wrapped up in a visually appealing package. I'd definitely recommend this one for readers aged from about seven or eight on up, who enjoy funny, fast-paced stories.