Robots Everywhere

My grandson (age 2 1/2) loves robots and he really likes this book. When I saw that the author has the same last name as mine (Hebson) that's when I knew that I had to buy it.

My four old grandson loves this book and I enjoyed it too. Very colorful and well illustrated. Besides the story, if you read the wording on different objects in the pictures you will be very amused. Example 'lotion for sensitive tin' instead of skin.

Hebson's `Robots Everywhere' is absolutely delightful. I bought this treasure for my healthy three-year old nephew with a slightly unhealthy infatuation with robots. While we both took great pleasure in Hebson and Hoffman's masterful creation, we had varying opinions of the book's message. I saw `Robots' as a black satirist's take on the underlying shift happening in America. Clearly capitalism has made man into walking automatons, or robots, if you will. One could interpret eating `nuts on steel plates,' as a sure sign hunger goes beyond the impoverished. Our cookie-cutter microwave dinners are ironically driving the majority of America, and even the elite, toward the mindset of the socialist working class. The author simply asks that you look around. Robots are, indeed, everywhere! Hebson leaves doubt as to whether he leans politically left or right, as he makes a subtle yet defiant argument and counter-argument for both. Hoffman's subtle use of red pastels, along with the ironic absence of red pastels is a clear nod to those who stood up to Marxism. Possibly Pitzelism. We're left paradoxically asking: Is the underbelly of America yearning for a democratic, yet less free-market structure? I discussed my feelings on Hebson's book with my three-year old Nephew who adamantly disagreed with me. He was pretty sure it's about robots.