Roz (short for ROZZUM unit 7134) is a robot. She isn’t programmed to live in the wilderness, but lands up on an island in a crate as a result of a shipwreck. Amidst the animals, she begins to build a new life for herself. She studies how these creatures move, hide, and communicate, and imitates them. One day when she stumbles upon an abandoned egg, and watches a gosling hatch out of it, she decides to take care of him. Wild Robot on an Island (Piccadilly Press) is a heartwarming illustrated edition of the first novel from Peter Brown’s Wild Robot series that explores this narrative. 

We learn about the journey that Roz and the gosling take. The energy of the plot is derived, first, from the animals’ response to Roz as she learns to adapt. Later it comes from the depiction of the changing seasons: bareness in fall, hibernation in winter, and exuberance in spring. The latter also reflects a transformative and difficult phase in the lives of Roz and her gosling.

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