Part of the canon of books used by British schools during the 1980s and 1990s, it was often used as a way to teach about imaginative thinking and creativity as a set text.
Tropes found in Zozu the Robot:
- Another Dimension: The children enter another dimension, which is notable for its resident The Eye who is quite creepy. It's so far removed from Earth in setting.
- Cyclops: The Eye is a unique example of this, being an eye on a stalk in a marsh; most Cyclops tend to be giants, but this one is in keeping with the setting.
- Disc-One Final Boss: The Eye is one of several antagonists they have to defeat.
- Kid Hero: The two protagonists have a journey through time and space and the race is to get home.
