The Wild Robot (Volume 1) (The Wild Robot, 1)

The Wild Robot is a beautifully written story about Roz, a robot who finds herself stranded on a remote island. As she learns to adapt to her new environment, Roz forms unexpected bonds with the island's wildlife, especially a gosling she adopts named Brightbill. This tale masterfully blends themes of nature, technology, and what it means to belong. The short chapters and engaging illustrations make it an excellent read for children aged 8-12, and it's a story that resonates with readers of all ages.​

The Wild Robot is a beautifully written and thought-provoking story that any child or adult will love. . Peter Brown introduces us to Roz, a robot who wakes up alone on a remote island and must learn to survive in the wild. Such a great book about survival, friendship and technology. You will love this book.

As far as I can tell, the audio CD is the same as the "Booktrack" audio version. It has some music and sound effects in the background, and seems well mastered (even audio levels, not boomy or tin sounding). Loved the movie. I bought both the book and audio CD so my little ones can know the full story.

My daughter's 14, 12, & 8 love the wild robot. Such a wonderful story.

I got The Wild Robot a while back because I'm trying to increase the number of chapter books that I am reading aloud to my kids. My kids are currently 8, 6, and 3. We just finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which is a massive book for the age of my kids. I wanted to take a break from the Harry Potter series before we started that one, but my daughter was determined to push forward. I am forcing a break before we move into book 5 though because the subject matter gets more mature and the plot gets more complex. But back to The Wild Robot. I might have an easier time convincing my kids to pick this one as our read-aloud option before bed if I were more familiar with it. So I get the audiobook from the e-library.Kate Atwater does a wonderful job with the narration. She is robotic when Roz speaks without being too over the top. And her voices for the other characters were just enough to distinguish them without making it feel like too much either. I think my kids would enjoy the audiobook version as well, since I have the Kindle version, I will probably just read this aloud to them when convenient. Kate did give me a great jumping-off point to guide my own inflection while reading aloud.The book description tells you about all that I can when it comes to plot. Roz is a robot that wakes up on an island. Some robot pieces were scattered around where she wakes up, and she realizes that she's the only robot who survived. And survival is exactly what Roz needs. I love this concept. That's what most of us humans are doing as well. We're surviving. We have to survive in the basic sense of feeding and clothing ourselves. Of course, our society is more advanced in technology so we have many of our survival needs almost on autopilot. But there's still more we have to survive. We need other humans for survival. We need relationships. And so we have to manage, navigate, and sometimes survive our relationships. And how we survive becomes learned and ingrained. Roz does the same thing. She has to adapt to her environment to survive. She doesn't have basic needs as far as eating or sleeping. She can rest, but many of her instincts are about helping her not to die rather than needing xyz to survive. Either way, she sees that she needs to learn from the animals on the island if she's going to survive.But life should go beyond mere survival. Of course, if we don't have our basic needs met, we can't look beyond that to relationships. But once we have the basics we can move from surviving to thriving. Roz shows us that the most satisfying "survival" we can have is to be helpful to others. We can create better relationships that allow us to both survive and thrive when we're living a life that helps and serves those around us. Roz goes from being viewed as a monster in the eyes of the animals on the island to being family.I'm always on the lookout for books with strong moral values--especially if those can be taught in a way that doesn't cram the message down the reader's throat. The Wild Robot succeeded in that area. When we get to the end of the book, the stakes are raised, and the adventure peaks. Some sensitive readers might find this to be too intense for them, but I think my kids would be just fine. They survived Cedric Diggory's murder as well as Charlotte's self-sacrifice from Charlotte's Web. So I think they will handle The Wild Robot without any issues. I'm not sure if we'll continue the series as I've heard less than stellar opinions about the subsequent books in this series. But for now, The Wild Robot gets 4 Stars. Have you read (or listened to) The Wild Robot? What did you think? Let me know!

The Wild Robot is a great story. My 3rd grader loved the book and finished the entire book in 2 days. The quality of the paper is good as well.. over all great purchase!

Great story and fun to read to my child! Print is good and my little one found it fun that chapter book had some pictures! More details in book than in the movie, which is usual.

I've been reading this series to my son (10 years old) at night and we both enjoy it. These books are very thoughtful and interesting, and have a lot of heart.