When nature and technology collide: meet Roz the robot!
The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations.Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are flowing towards the island, bringing new dangers for the animals.Forced inland they will have to fight over fewer resources - and Roz realises that she must march into the waves and undertake an incredible undersea adventure to find a way to protect her beloved island and all who live on it ...From bestselling author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed third book in his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series, exploring what happens when nature and technology collide.Praise for The Wild Robot'An Iron Man style fable for our age' - Piers Torday, award-winning author of The Last Wild'A modern-day classic in the making' - Booktrust[Peter Brown's THE WILD ROBOT was a #1 New York Times bestseller w/c 11th June 2023.]
Peter Brown is an author and illustrator of children's books. His titles include New York Times bestsellers The Wild Robot, The Curious Garden, Children Make Terrible Pets and Mr. Tiger Goes Wild. Peter has earned numerous honours for his books, including a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award and six New York Times bestsellers.Peter lives in Philadelphia, USA. Follow him on Twitter @itspeterbrown
The Wild Robot and its sequel The Wild Robot Escapes were both New York Times bestsellers
Almost 100,000 copies of The Wild Robot have been shipped in the UK/export to date (July 2022)
A title to sit alongside such distinctive books as Ted Hughes' THE IRON MAN, Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen's PAX, Shaun Tan's THE LOST THING, and Dave Shelton's A BOY AND A BEAR IN A BOAT
With beautiful black and white art throughout, this is a book to cherish: perfect to read aloud and enjoy with a younger child, or for an older child to read alone
Peter Brown is a tremendously talented and versatile writer and illustrator - his most recent picture book Fred Gets Dressed was published on the Templar list (2021)
A boldly original and beguiling wild adventure. -Piers Torday on THE WILD ROBOT
A modern-day classic in the making. -Booktrust on THE WILD ROBOT
A moving and captivating tale about friendship and emotion. -WRD Magazine on THE WILD ROBOT
Exciting from start to finish...I couldn't put it down. -National Geographic Kids on THE WILD ROBOT ESCAPES
Brilliantly drawn and surprisingly touching, this merges the mechanical with the human beautifully -Angels and Urchins on THE WILD ROBOT ESCAPES