Children’s Books
The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
ISBN 978-0823446988
Published by Holiday House (US)
and Templar Books (UK).
(for translations, scroll down)
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For years, the king and queen tried to have a baby. Their wish was twice granted when an inventor and a witch gave them a little wooden robot and an enchanted log princess. There's just one catch, every night when the log princess sleeps, she transforms back into an ordinary log. She can only be woken with the magic words "Awake, little log, awake."
The two are inseparable until one day when the sleeping log princess is accidentally carted off to parts unknown. Now it's up to her devoted brother to find her and return her safely to the kingdom. They need to take turns to get each other home, and on the way, they face a host of adventures involving the Queen of Mushrooms, a magic pudding, a baby in a rosebush, and an old lady in a bottle.
What an astonishingly sweet book. I worried about the log princess, loved all the adventures we never saw, and cheered the family of beetles. —Neil Gaiman
A wooden masterpiece. --Lemony Snicket
Tom Gauld has created a masterful classic fairytale of a picture book that hits in all the right ways. In his inimitable style, he has squeezed royalty, robots, witches, inventors, trolls, sea-captains, forests, ghosts, and... beetles (!) into a beautiful, odd, adventurous and satisfying story. All wrapped up, of course, with the bow of sibling love. --Oliver Jeffers
There's a whole universe within these pages. Fun to read, clever, and kind. --Jillian Tamaki
Tom Gauld is one of the best storytellers working and everything he does so well is here - it is beautiful, immersive, expertly told, and breathes completely on its own. I am jealous of it. --Jon Klassen
I didn't know the world needed another fairy tale until I read this funny, beautiful, perfect book. --Carson Ellis
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Translations
Audiobook: The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess from Recorded Books
Brazil: O Robozinho de Madeira e a Princesa Lenha from VR Editoras
Catalan: El Petit Robot de Fusta i la Princesa Tronc from Salamandra / Penguin
Chinese: 小木头人和木桩公主
Czech: Malý dřevěný robot a polínková princezna from Centrala
Dutch: De Kleine Houten Robot en de Boomstam Prinses from Lannoo
French: Le Petit Robot de Bois et la Princesse-Bûche from l’Ecole des Loisirs
German: Der kleine Holzroboter und die Baumstumpfprinzessin from Moritz verlag
Greek: ΤΟ ΜΙΚΡΟ ΞΥΛΙΝΟ ΡΟΜΠΟΤ ΚΑΙ Η ΠΡΙΓΚΙΠΙΣΣΑ ΠΟΥ ΚΟΙΜΟΤΑΝ
Hebrew: רובוט הקרשים הקטן והנסיכה בול עץ from Agam
Italian: Il Robottino di Legno e la Principessa Ciocco from Mondadori
Japanese: 木のロボットと 丸太のおひめさまの だいぼうけん
Korean: 나무 로봇과 통나무 공주
Polish: Mały drewniany robot i księżniczka z pieńka from Centrala
Portuguese: O Pequeno Robot de Madeira e a Princesa de Lenha from Penguin
Romanian (details and specific link soon) www.povestelaofir.ro/
Québécois: Le Petit Robot de Bois et la Princesse-Bûchette from Comme des Géants
Solvakian (details and specific link soon) brak.sk/product-category/detska-literatura/
Spanish: El Pequeño Robot de Madera y la Princesa Tronco from Salamandra / Penguin
Swedish: Den lilla träroboten och prinsessan vedträ from Alfabeta
Taiwanese: 小木頭機器人和圓木公主