“There was once a robot with a broken heart…”
Thus, apparently, begins David Lucas’ children’s book, “The Robot and the Bluebird”.
It is a fable about a robot whose heart is literally broken, and then, later, metaphorically broken, too. This seems like a beautiful story about love, loss, and sacrifice.
This review offers us the following synopsis:
A bluebird flying south that is caught in cold weather is invited to take shelter in the robot’s chest where his (literal) broken heart used to be. He can feel his heart fluttering, his heart now sings, and when the bluebird flies a little way, Robot feels like his heart is flying.
When it doesn’t look like the bluebird can make it south on her own, Robot carries her in his heart, sacrificing everything to get her to the sunshine, where she lives in his heart forever.
