Lucas produces his most meditative work to date in a tale that
reads like a mechanical improvement on Oscar Wilde's "The Happy
Prince." When a robot's heart breaks unexpectedly he is sent to the
scrap heap to wait out his days, until one cold night a bluebird
lands on him. She can go no further on her journey south and takes
up residence in the robot's empty chest. The robot offers her a
permanent home there, and when she explains that she must travel
south he offers to take her. The trip proves too much for the old
robot, however, and when they finally make it, his last words to
her are, "Make your home in my heart," which she does, along with
her fellow birds. A quiet beauty permeates this old-fashioned
story. The illustrations convey the robot's simple dignity, color,
perspective and sequencing neatly choreographing the tale's
emotional trajectory. (Picture book. 4-8) (Kirkus Reviews)
There was once a robot with a broken heart, good for nothing but
expiring slowly on a scrap heap. Then one winter's day a migrating
bluebird lands on his shoulder, too exhausted to go further. The
robot offers her shelter in the place where his heart used to be,
and her warmth and singing and companionship stir up the last
glimmer of energy the robot has; he carries her across snowy wastes
to the warm south, whereupon his strength dies out finally. And
there he still stands today like an old hollow tree, home every
year to singing birds.
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