The robot named Roz discovers she is on an island free of humans. She watches and observes the animals until she learns their language. The animals think she is a monster and treat Roz as an outcast. After a while, Roz begins making friends by helping the animals with things they need. I just wanted to post a note to say how deeply my students and I enjoy your Wild Robot books. Our favorite moments as a class are the ones we spend with Roz. Every day, at the end of read-aloud time, my students beg for more. Thank you so much for these beautiful stories and for bringing so much joy and magic to our classroom.

The weird thing about this story is that, although other ideas have come and gone, it seems to be one that really wants to live. So, I’ll see, I guess. Kids & Children» Children, Teenagers & Young Adults (YA) Fiction» Nature & Animal Stories for Children & TeenagersI spent over a year cobbling together my first draft of The Wild Robot. It was rough. Very rough. But Little, Brown & Company liked it enough to sign it up and in July of 2014 it became official: my robot nature story would be published! There was just one problem…I didn’t know how to finish it. This is such an odd, original, thought-provoking and heartwarming tale. The book is a meditation on what it is to be human and, at the same time, an incredibly fun adventure. Readers will lose their heart to Roz and it’s a truly gripping read. The illustrations are also enigmatic and beautiful. This looks like such a fun book, and I can see it tying in nicely with simple machines. I will certainly pass it on to our third grade team. Thanks for sharing the samples and joining in the link up! Robots can take almost any shape and so I considered different designs and capabilities and purposes for Roz. She had to be strong and intelligent, but not too strong and not too intelligent. If readers were ever going to relate to a robot she would have to be vulnerable, not invincible. And it might help if she were humanoid—that is, if she had arms and legs and a head—so readers could imagine themselves in her shoes. Most important, she had to be able to learn. Hi! my name is George and I love your book The Wild Robot. I read it with my mom and my little brother. We have a question. Are you going to write a sequel for The Wild Robot? I look forward to hear from you.

First of all I love? your two books The Wild Robot and The Wild Robot Escapes. Second, I think you are the best author in the world.Roz is a futuristic robot that washes ashore on a deserted island. From there, a tale of survival and discovery begins. I just book the two books for him for Christmas so we could read them again together & we’re enjoying them just as much. Evie adores Roz. She plays Roz, she IS Roz, and when she is, being kind all the time, being helpful, sitting still and being quiet is easy.

Heard this yelled across our 5th grade classroom today from a reluctant reader to a friend, “This is SUCH a good book!!” Wall-E meets Hatchet in this New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter BrownI really like the wild robot I’m looking forward to reading the second book. Me and my family have Lyme disease and that book has helped us along the way with my reading. I was really intrigued by the image of a robot in a tree, and a question suddenly popped into my mind: What would an intelligent robot do in the wilderness?

What do you think of the violence in The Wild Robot? Is it disturbing to see animals shot and robots dismembered? Do you think it's important in a survival story to show the dangers of the wild?This is a brilliant resource that your children can use throughout the chapter to make notes. This ensures children are engaged and actively participating and reflecting on the story. Roz stumbled on until she found a patch of ground that was flat and open and carpeted with pine needles. It seemed like a safe place, and safety was all the robot really wanted, so she stood there, motionless, all perfect lines and angles set against the irregular shapes of the wilderness. I’ve read The Wild Robot to my third graders over the past couple of years and always we want more! Is there a plan for a third book? The Wild Robot is the story of Rozzum unit 7134, a robot who wakes up for the very first time to find that she’s alone on a remote, wild island. Roz doesn’t know how she got there, or where she came from: she only knows that she wants to stay alive. And by robotically studying her environment she learns everything she needs to know. She learns how to move through the wilderness, how to avoid danger, she even learns how to communicate with the animals. But the most important lesson Roz learns is that kindness can be a survival skill. And she uses kindness to develop friends and a family and a peaceful life for herself. Until her mysterious past catches up with her.