A widowed robotics genius brings home his latest creation, hoping her interaction with his troubled kids will help them all, but - as is so frequently the case in these stories - Josie quickly moves beyond her programming in order to become something else. There's a lot of history in stories like this, and the basic tropes aren't always interrogated as well as they might be, but there's a real sense of wry humour in here that's genuinely appealing. And whoever designed the book deserves an awful lot of credit - the playfulness of the font changes and all the internal illustrations and page backdrops work enormously well. The whole thing is a pleasure to look at.