Robot City Adventures are a series of comic style books from Templar Publishing, there are currently 7 books available and we were sent four titles to have a look at. These Robot City Adventures by Paul Collicutt are called, City in Peril, Rust Attack, Murder on the Robot City Express and The Indestructible Metal men. The RRP for these books starts at £5.99, and I think are good value for money. Have a look at the Robot City Website for more information on the books and a father cool introduction!
As you might expect the illustrations for the Robot City books are dark and action packed, with matt paper that feels just like a retro comic. The covers however are brought to life with exciting holographic metallic illustrations that shine out at you from the front covers.
The stories tell of heroic robots, that work alongside there human counterparts in Robot City. We started by reading City in Peril the first book in the series. City in Peril starts with the Coastguard robot Curtis setting out to help the stricken oil rig Red Star 3. After rescuing the men and robots Curtis goes on to put out the fire raging on the rig before returning everyone safely to the city. This is not the end of the excitement as Curtis goes on to battle an eight tentacled se monster before returning harmony to Robot City.
The books are a great way to get children to read as they are less threatening than a whole white page full of words. The only thing I noticed was like comic books the text is all in capitals, in the past the boy has struggled with this as he was learning to read, but is confident now to read these fairly easily. For this reason I would say older readers will enjoy these a lot, and the boy thinks they are great as they are full of adventure. I felt that these books had a lovely moral to them, with everyone working together to look after everyone who lives in the city. The robots certainly seem to have very humanistic traits, as well as names.
If you would like more information on where you can get hold of a copy of the books, to download some great wallpapers, or just want to look at the robots in more detail visit the Robot City Website. We enjoyed reading about the different robots of Robot City, and as the last of my #WorldBookDay giveaways we are pleased to be able to offer you the chance to win these four titles woth RRP £25.96. Simply complete the rafflecopter below and keep your fingers crossed!
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an ironing robot
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I be a robot competition enterer!
Oooh I like that, hopefully you wouldn’t enter and win them all, leave a few for me!!
A robot Mum! I can put my feet up then! 🙂 x
a cleaning robot – to save me time!
A politician and I’d be programmed not to lie !
a cooking robot. Would save me from doing a job i hate!
a robot washing machine seeing as i’m pretty good at it
Definitely one that does all the cleaning for me
I would be a chocolate tester robot
I would be a shelf stacker in a supermarket, nice job that would due done in super quick time and then home to relax!
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a bomb disposal robot what an exciting job
Oooo – tough question! Quite an easy one for me to answer at the moment though, I would have to have about eight, maybe ten, pairs of hands (perhaps on those long tentacle type arms, so that I could reach several different tasks at once – am I getting a bit carried away?!) so that I could actually get done everything that needs to be done!
I would be a coffee machine in an office listening to all the gossip then broadcast it to the world, ahahahahaha! 😉
A robot chef would be fun and efficient.
A robot dancer – my robot moves would be amazing 🙂
Lollipop man robot
Lollipop man robot so I could help people cross the road
I would be a robot flying space girl and travel the universe at the speed of light
id be a pot washer robot beacuse they never seem to get done in my flat
I would be a speed of lightning robot and be able to clean the house at the blink of an eye and then relax and eat chocolate on the sofa 😉
I like that, and you come and clean my house too?
one to peg out the clothes
A cleaning robot. It would be bliss not to do the housework
I’d be an ironing robot. Its the only job in the world that I hate.
A vacuum cleaning robot would come in very handy and save me lots of time!
My job would be chief, I just boss the other robots – then I relax 😀
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I would be a laundry person, I love ironing, I know mad!
A auto robot that automatically does makes me do the cleaning without me feeling tired!!
I would be a robot husband clearer upper…oh, silly me I already am 🙂
cleaning the oven – i just hate doing it
an ironing robot
football playing robot so i can join inwith my 2 boys
A air hostess robot so I could travel the world
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A cleaning up after everyone robot then mum could have five minutes to herself
I would love to be show bot from Radio 1
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A crafting robot, I’d happily sew all day
I would be an ironing robot, and I find ironing relaxing
A weeding robot for the garden.
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A medical robot helping in intricate operations.
A space robot, helping with missions to Mars!
I would be a police robot and keep everyone safe 🙂
I would be a robot wine taster! 😛 Hic!
a car driving robot
a cake making robot ….. i love cakes lol !
I’d love to be a shelf stacker and tidier in a library or bookshop 🙂
A housewife robot that does the hundred and one things we have to do throughout the day
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Mum and Housewife…………..able to balance baby and housework with 2 hands rather than 1! 🙂
I’d be a cake baking robot!!!
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A biscuit baking robot so I could eat freshly baked cookies.
id be a baking machine making yummy cakes
A cooking robot – I love it!!! 🙂
robo-chef 😉 maybe then i wont chop my fingers trying to slice things!
I agree it has to be a food shopping and cooking robot
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A dog walking robot so my dog always got out whatever the weather.
I am a robot competition enterer – its still not helping me win though
Solar powered so I could laze in the sun all day
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Could I be a robot boss who could just deploy other robots to do the work please?
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Too late to enter but these look fab. My 7yr old is a keen reader and enjoys chunky chapter books but like his mum and dad is a bit of a sci-fi / fantasy geek too and comics come with the territory 🙂