![]() ![]() The story ends on a suspended note Lucy and Ezra never do catch up to the Robot King, but a ferris wheel spins them skyward, where they touch the moon and catch a glimpse of their long-absent father returning home. When she assembles a man-sized figure and inserts their mother's music box as a heart, it comes aliveand what life! Sparks fly from it, pieces that fall or break off whirl through the air, and when it escapes the attic, it leaves a trail of animated bicycles and other machines for the children to follow. ![]() Ezra, mute since his mother's death, compulsively collects small thingspebbles, bits of glass, clock parts, wires, keysthat older sister Lucy uses to craft mechanical toys. From the author of The Houdini Box (1991), a haunting, enigmatic tale of two lonely children who create something wonderful. ![]()
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