Arti

Tobias Elsäßer’s new children’s book about friendship in the not-too-distant future

When Jessy receives a human-looking robot for her eleventh birthday, she’s disappointed. Arti, her new android, has been programmed by her parents to make Jessy do more sport and spend less time online. Luckily, Mrs Westic is at hand, a pensioner who is obsessed with technology. She helps Jessy change Arti’s settings – with unexpected results. The android becomes more human by the day. Arti starts to make decisions on his own. The first thing he decides to do is to set free the family’s beloved parrot. Was it a mistake to trust him? A heart-warming, gripping story about a friendship without limits.

A book about being different and having courage

On being there for each other no matter how different you are