Bound To Stay Bound

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 Wants vs. needs vs. robots
 Author: Rex, Michael

 Publisher:  Nancy Paulsen (2023)

 Classification: Easy
 Physical Description: [30] p., col. ill., 28 cm

 BTSB No: 747871 ISBN: 9780593530092
 Ages: 5-8 Grades: K-3

 Subjects:
 Robots -- Fiction
 Motivation (Psychology) -- Fiction
 Need -- Fiction
 Desire -- Fiction

Price: $23.78

Summary:
A group of robots demonstrates the difference between a want and a need, by making trades to get some things they really want and accidentally giving away some things they really need.


Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (-) (01/15/23)
   School Library Journal (00/02/23)
   Booklist (02/15/23)

Full Text Reviews:

Booklist - 02/15/2023 To demonstrate the difference between true, necessary-for-survival needs and optional wants, Rex sends a fresh cast of animated, loudly hued robots cavorting across the spreads of this follow-up to Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots (2020). While it's partly for fun, it also functions to warn against the hazards of trading off one tool (cool boots, a remote-control platypus) for another (legs, batteries), and to introduce the idea of negotiating fair bargains or exchanges. Though logic stumbles over language in a contention that, to find out what happens next, readers will “want” to turn the page (it would be equally accurate here to call that a “need”), Rex does neatly set out the distinction at the end: “These robots are happy to HAVE the things they NEED so they can ENJOY the things they WANT.” Food for thought—and not just for the kids. - Copyright 2023 Booklist.

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