The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Genre: Sci-fic

Age Demographic: 7+

Summary: When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is. She knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island’s unwelcoming animal inhabitants.

Review

I saw the tailor for the movie and it look so cute. The Wild Robot is one of the books I got signed at Festival of the Book in DC. My mom took my copy to read to her second grade class and the kids love it.

The Wild Robot has strong themes of nature. In a world of rapidly advancing technology, we can still learn from nature. The book strikes a balance of the existent of technology along side nature. While we can have the former, we need to cherish the latter.

Despite this book being for kids it knows its audience and does not talk down to them. The story hits hard at times. Roz and the animals get hurt. even coming close to dying The author does not shy away nor fluff up how nature is with the cycle of life and death. An intelligent children’s story.

The writing flow nicely with the story. The author does a good job of writing Roz and distinguish her from humans. Mentioning at the right time that Roz does not feel emotions.

The Wild Robot is a short book that read of all ages will love. I will mention the ending will having you wanting to read the next.

Similar books:

The Prince Who Fell from the Sky by – The story is told from a bear’s point of view and takes place after all the humans left Earth.

Z for Zachariah by – A teen much learn to servive on her own after a nuclear fallout.

Movies that are similar:

Wall-E and The Iron Giant.

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