The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, 1) Paperback – Large Print, January 10, 2024

Our son is reading The Wild Robot right now, and he’s completely hooked! It’s a great story with a mix of adventure, heartwarming moments, and important lessons about nature and survival. The writing is engaging, and it’s perfect for keeping young readers interested. He can’t wait to see what happens next, and I love that it’s sparking his imagination. Highly recommend this book for any young reader looking for something unique and exciting!

Epic. Relatable. Moving plot which is written beautifully. Simply, a must read.

I read this book over a few weeks with my first and second grade sons. Wow! It blew me away. Very original and thoughtful. Especially relevant given the recent advances in AI technology. I highly recommend this treasure of children's literature.

The book was beautifully written about the unlikeliest group coming together as a community. Great book for a young kid!

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!

My 3rd grader read this book and loved it. So I bought it to read to her and her sister before bed. They both love it now!The chapters are short and sweet so the story is easily digestible.

Thank You for this series. It really resonates with me. It's a story with many facets. The illustrations are Beautiful

My 8-year-old son, who usually prefers graphic novels, thought this book might be too hard at first. It's a thick book with over 300 pages and barely any pictures, so he planned to read 30 pages a day. But once he started, the story captivated him, and he finished it in just a few days! This is the first time he's been able to read such a long book, and now he's eagerly waiting for The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects.If you’re looking for a perfect bridge from graphic novels to chapter books, The Wild Robot series is a fantastic choice. The story is engaging enough to pull in young readers, even if they’re not used to reading longer books. Highly recommended for any reluctant reader.

"The Wild Robot" is destined to become a new classic. The story is filled with adventure and friendship and does not shy from strong emotion or complex ideas, while still being entirely appropriate for younger children. From the opening of the playful otters, to the sweet-sweet relationship between Rob and Brightbill born out of tragedy, to the final stand of the island, I loved every minute (of the whole trilogy), as did our 6yo. In fact... we've read it 4 times already! Chapters are short, but the pace is great. I cannot rave about this book enough, and would happily re-read it anytime.

Me gustó que llegó intacto, mi hijo lo usará en la escuela.

Très bonne série

El libro es precioso. La historia es muy muy bonita. Inspiración de la peli. Pero el libro es precioso. ROZZ es un corazón de verdad

A heart touching story narrated in simple words.My 6 yr old daughter finished the book in 2 days and said, “very interesting but sad”. Bought the sequel now. 🙂