![]() ![]() In characteristically elaborate, warmly lit illustrations, Lucas uses sharp geometrical forms as the basis for his urban scenes against this backdrop, the bird's more organic form is a welcome contrast. Rejuvenated, the robot carries the bluebird south across industrial wastelands to rejoin her multicolored flock. In a depersonalized factory, working robots attempt to fix what remains of the central character's heart-two springs and an open door-before sending him to the scrap heap with “all the other old machines.” When snow falls, a bluebird lands on his shoulder, and the robot builds her a nest in the space where his heart used to be. ) to feature an ingenuous creature navigating an uncertain world (the other is Candlewick's Peanut A Tin Man–like robot with a broken heart finds purpose in one of two books this fall by Lucas ( Halibut Jackson ![]()
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