The Brave Little Toaster
Feeling abandoned by their beloved master, a vacuum cleaner, tensor lamp, electric blanket, clock radio, and toaster undertake a long and arduous journey to find him in a faraway city.
Feeling abandoned by their beloved master, a vacuum cleaner, tensor lamp, electric blanket, clock radio, and toaster undertake a long and arduous journey to find him in a faraway city.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385230506 (0385230508)
Publish date: April 2nd 1986
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 78
Edition language: English
Series: The Brave Little Toaster (#1)
The Brave Little Toaster was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction which I think is an important point. Its first audience was for adults and not children. The tone of the tale is rather melancholy if cute and, while I totally understand why children love it, I believe ...
I don't know how to express what my feelings were when I learned that 'The Brave Little Toaster' had actually been a novel, and so was the sequel where they go to Mars. What?!I, of course, had to put everything in my life aside until I located a library to request it from. It's a sweet little book, ...
Disch clearly had a rather tense relationship with God, who is notorious for His sense of humor. I can hear the conversation. God: Tom, they're going to make a movie out of one of your books!Disch: Oh thank you Lord, fame at last! Which one?God: Gotcha! The Brave Little Toaster.Not that there's anyt...
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