Nan says she’ll help Harry to make a robot to play with while it’s away, but, before they start, Nan is taken ill and has to go to hospital herself! In the story Harry makes ‘junk robots’ so I thought it would be a good activity for the children to do as well and a nice way to pass a morning. As mentioned in a previous post, Mr D and Miss E are really into dinosaurs thanks to the Harry and the Dinosaurs books.

They have almost the full collection of these books now, (I think we are missing one or two) and one of their favourite ones is Harry and the Robots.There are six robots in the pack so they each took it in turns to choose the robots they wanted to paint. Adrian Reynolds is a hugely talented illustrator who has worked on many picture books, including the wonderful Harry stories and four adventures featuring Pete and Polo. Which is probably verging on impossible seeing as I was a nursery nurse and preschool teacher for almost 12 years! He cleans them, finds out their names and takes them everywhere - until, one day, the dinosaurs get lost! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers.I saved a couple of cardboard boxes for them and set up some trays with various items for them to use to decorate the boxes with. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. My 3 year old is robot obsessed so I got this for his birthday, he loves it and is one of his favourites for bedtime. Michael Lawrence originally trained as a graphic designer and photographer, but subsequently became a television script reader, press officer, an art and antiques dealer, a painter and sculptor, and several other things he would rather not talk about.