Alphabot Adventures - Perfect Picture Book Friday #PPBF

With playful whimsy, gorgeous illustrations, and fun alliterated text, this is a perfect picture book for kids who love robots, kids who enjoying hunting for treasures in illustrations, and kids learning their alphabet. I am excited to be able to offer a preview of this fun picture book releasing on March 18th.

Book cover- a waving robot holds the oar of a rowboat full of alphabet letters.

Alphabot Adventures

Author/ Illustrator: Lauren Briére

Publisher: Blue Star Press (2025)

Ages: 2-5

Fiction

Themes:

Robots, alphabet, alliteration, and imagination.

Synopsis:

Join robots on a whimsical adventure from A to Z in this picture book full of funny, alliterative phrases and lush, richly textured oil-painted illustrations that will spark early readers' imaginations!

Do robots dream of strumming uplifting tunes on ukuleles under the moonlight? Or perhaps they wonder at the world while wandering woodlands? You bet they do!

Join a crew of whimsical robot friends as they float and fly through the alphabet on their magical adventures. Featuring alliterative sentences like “H Bot is happiest when hiking” and “M Bot makes magical music in the moonlight,” this alphabet book uses humor and wordplay to bring each letter to life.

Talented illustrator Lauren Briére imagined this cast of robots with creative designs to match each letter theme, like Archer bots with amazingly abysmal aim and Quirky quarterback bots dressed for the field. Her richly detailed oil-painted scenes amidst lush landscapes and clouds will capture the imaginations of both kids and adults. This sweet, silly book makes a wonderful read-aloud to foster a love of language and literacy.

Opening Lines:

This book is about a group of

robots and the letters they love.

What I LOVED about this book: Color half-page spreads feature amazingly emotional robots with the alphabet letter somewhere on, or very near them. Each illustration contains items which begin with that letter - such as an airplane, aardvark, arrow, apples on an apple tree, and an apple bullseye target. The text on the opposite side is a fun alliterated introduction to (or comment on) the specific robot. Aww, one can't help but pout at A Bot's face . . . .

Internal spread - on the left, aliterated text for the letter A . On the right, A Bot holds a bow in a wooded field with an airplane (overhead), aardvark, arrow, apples on an apple tree, and an apple bulleseye target around him. — Text & Image © Lauren Briére, 2025.

B Bot and C Bot are much happier robots, reading on the beach with a bear or collecting items beginning with the letter C. Lauren Briére is amazing in her ability to create twenty-six different and fascinating robots. They all have different colors, sizes, shapes, degree of rust, and emotions. Her vibrant illustrations are highly detailed, yet also fluid and loose, textured oil-paintings. Each of which would make a wonderful framed print.

Internal spread - on the left alliterated text for G. On the right, G Bot pushes a gurney with a goat in it through a garden, past a goose.

Text & Image © Lauren Briére, 2025.

All of the illustrations are amazing. But I really enjoy the happiness and serenity of I Bot and J Bot. And I love F Bot, with his found family of a flamingo, fish (in a bowl), frog, fox, and fireflies snuggled in a forest, and L Bot, dressed in a rain slicker watching an amazing bolt of lightning fork around a light house. But my overall favorite is the happy H Bot, a bot after my own heart . . .

Internal image - on the left, an alliterated sentance with H. On the right, a hiking robot with hiking poles happily gazing at a humminbird.

H Bot is happiest when hiking.

I absolutely adore the light playing through the trees and around the hummingbird's wings. And the sense of peace that this illustration offers. Kids will enjoy hunting through the illustrations and figuring what items in the images relate to the particular letter. They will revel in the silly humor and imagination in the text and illustrations. Additionally, the observant reader will find the hearts Lauren mentioned hiding on a few of the robots. Overall, this is a fun way to introduce the playful nature of words, image decoding, and the alphabet through adorable robots. It's a book kids will enjoy again and again. Resources:

draw a robot of your own. What alphabot would it be? Where would your robot be and what items would you put in an illustration with it?

Photo collage of 4 of the 30 alphabet craft and activities.

check out some of these 30 alphabet crafts and activities, including an alphabet scavenger hunt.

Photo collage of 4 of twenty alphabet games.

have fun playing some of these 20 alphabet games.

If you missed my interview with Lauren Briére on Monday, find it (here).

This post is part of a series of blog posts by authors and KidLit bloggers called Perfect Picture Book Fridays. For more picture book suggestions and resources see Susanna Leonard Hill's Perfect Picture Books.