Blurb from Bookwagon: The Wild Robot Protects concludes the wonderful series by Peter brown. Roz the robot has made a welcome home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, animals and wildflowers. She is at the centre of an island community with friendly animal inhabitants – including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island however is under threat from the Poison Tide, first reported by a dying seal washed ashore. He warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are flowing towards the island, bringing new dangers for the animals. Forced inland, the community will have no choice but to fight over scarce resources. Roz embarks on a perilous and incredible journey across the seas, aiming to protect her beloved island and all who live on it. Along the way, she makes friends of a host of amazing sea creatures who provide inspiration but also vital information about the source of the poison tide….
Begin with this interview (20 minutes) with Peter Brown talking to Colby Sharp for The Yarn. In this 2023 interview Peter Brown talks with Books for Keeps. And Books for Keeps also talked to Peter after the publication of the first book - The Wild Robot.
Hugely entertaining, timely, and triumphant. Kirkus star review
This might sound strange, but I am very sad that the NSW Department of School Education have 'stolen' this text and made it the focus of one of their English units. Reading the design of the unit of work it sounds to me that any love of this first book - The Wild Robot - will be utterly crushed. I would love young readers to just find and read all three books from this series - not as part of an enforced school unit with a series of micro tasks that, to my eye, destroy any love you could have for this truly heart-warming and inventive series. At their heart these books are about relationships, the expression of emotions, the importance of forming connections with others. There is also a layer of environmental care and as humans, how we find a balance between our own survival, exploitation of the planet and the vital need for conservation of places and creatures.
I read The Wild Robot in 2018 and as I read this latest installment I wondered if it might have been good to re-read the whole series before reading this new book. The Wild Robot Protects does stand alone but I think you will enjoy this book even more if you are familiar with Ros and her island family.
The New York Times reviewer explores the reaction of his son when he read these books:
To my son, Brown’s books were the first he discovered on his own; the first that swept him up in a lengthy, can’t-put-it-down narrative; the first to wallop him with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. ... The life of a wild robot, in other words, is pretty similar to the life of a kid. That’s what makes Brown’s trilogy so powerful. Readers love Roz, but they also learn from her. Even better, they learn alongside her.
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