Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Here's an excerpt from Peter Brown's blog:
At the end of The Wild Robot, Roz is badly damaged, and she’s taken away from the island, back to the robot factory where she was made. And I picked up from there as I turned my attention to The Wild Robot Escapes. I began by simply asking myself questions:
- What happens when Roz arrives at the robot factory?
- If her body is repaired will her computer brain be affected?
- Where does she go after being refurbished?
To contrast the wilderness of the first book, I wanted Roz to now experience as much of the civilized world as possible. I wanted her to experience cities and towns and rural areas. I wanted human characters and robot characters and domestic animal characters. And there would have to be futuristic technology: computers and machines and vehicles. As I thought about the future, I asked myself more questions:
- What will our world look like in 50 or 100 years?
- How will technology change our lives?
- How will our lives stay the same?
Here is the website for the book if you'd like to explore it. There's an interesting interview with the author as he talks about this book.
Listen to Chapters 1, 2 and 3 here!
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What do you think is going to happen to Roz in this adventure? I can't wait to hear what you're thinking!
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