Tom Gauld: The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

A little wooden robot embarks on a quest to find his missing sister in this memorable contemporary bedtime story by acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld. 

For years, the king and queen tried desperately to have a baby. Their wish was twice granted when an engineer and a witch gave them a little wooden robot and an enchanted log princess. There's just one catch - every night when the log princess sleeps, she transforms back into an ordinary log. She can only be woken with the magic words 'Awake, little log, awake.'

The two are inseparable until one day when the sleeping log princess is accidentally carted off to parts unknown. Now it's up to her devoted brother to find her and return her safely to the kingdom. They need to take turns to get each other home, and on the way, they face a host of adventures involving the Queen of Mushrooms, a magic pudding, a baby in a rosebush, and an old lady in a bottle.

This is acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Gauld's first picture book for children, inspired by a bedtime story he made up for his daughters. In his words, 'I was trying to make a book inspired by three different sets of books: The books that I remember enjoying as a child, the books that I watched my daughters enjoying, and the books I enjoy now as an adult. I wanted the book to have its own quirky feeling but also to function like a classic bedtime story.'

A Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
An NPR 'Book We Love!'
A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of the Year
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
An Evanston Public Library Great Books for Kids pick!

Format: Hardback