Robot Author at the Beach

Baltimore native Natalie Standiford, author of How to Say Goodbye in Robot, signed books for fans this evening at Delaware's Bethany Beach Books. Robot is the best non-wizard kids book to come down the pike in quite some time. My 12-year-old daughter, a voracious reader, considers it one of her favorite books, and I'm a fan, too. Standiford told me her next book, Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters—due out in September—is "nothing like Robot." No matter—we eagerly await its release.