Listen up, kids! Sick of chores and boring homework? Well, they are a thing of the past when you get a robot to be YOU! However, the robot has to learn all about you and it turns out there’s quite a lot to know. One person is quite a complicated apparatus, not just the doing bits but also the things you can’t see, like feelings. Written and illustrated with insight and charming wit,* Can I Build Another Me?* provides an intriguing and illuminating look at what it is to be human. This companion volume to It Might Be An Apple is highly recommended for ages 3 and up.

Alexa Dretzke is a Children’s & YA Book Specialist at Readings Hawthorn.