This is Vicki, my all-time favorite robot character from the 80’s tv show “Small Wonder”! They say the best material anyone has to pull from (for writing children’s books) is from one’s own childhood. As a kid, I thought this was SO COOL to watch. Maybe it’s why I wrote a robot picture book as an adult!
It’s interesting and deep to think about what makes you care about something…even though you know its not human or even an animal.
I get a little teary-eyed when I think about moving my family out of our home that we’ve lived in from the beginning of our marriage. This house sheltered us from so many storms, we raised our babies here, we dreamed our dreams here. I know the house isn’t human, but I can’t help but imagine it feeling like we were abandoning it if we left. It would be sad. I’d probably drive by and check on it periodically to see if the new owners were taking care of it, not that I could do anything about it, but it would feel good if I knew the house was being loved like it deserves. Isn’t it strange that I think those thoughts? Do you care about anything like that?
The new movie, Interstellar, explores this idea of machinery and humanity too!
It’s definitely something for character creators to think about no matter if you are drawing them or writing about them. Your characters are (usually) not really real, and furthermore, they might be inanimate objects. So, what does a character need to do, say or look like to be loved by the readers?
I dazzled my four-year-old with this show today! The episodes are on Youtube. She can’t wait to watch another episode tomorrow. Go ahead and relive the magic too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WCJ84z7vw
