He also returns to the chummy voice of the first book, affectionately addressing readers directly and bringing them into the fold by describing Roz as “our robot.” Roz’s paradoxical self is for all of us. Using short, direct sentences (he’s not one to engage in flowery figurative language), short chapters, and a measured pace, he invites readers into Roz’s thoughts. What a conundrum is Roz, and how we love her for it.Īiding these feelings of endearment is Brown’s writing style. These push-and-pull tendencies, quite human in nature, are a large part of what makes her such an endearing character. She’s not programmed for violence yet boldly wields a rifle to scare off wolves who endanger her animal friends. After a devastating tornado disables the computer systems on the farm, kindhearted Roz has an opportunity to leave yet feels an urge to stay and protect the family she has grown to love.

Shareef any time Roz leaves the premises, but she still quietly plans her escape. Rox is in good hands here, but she desperately wants to get back to her wild island home and see her beloved son, Brightbill, again.īrown spends abundant time with Roz on the farm, revisiting her contradictory, and beguiling, nature. In the family for generations, the farm is now ultra-mechanized but also run-down. Shareef, a widower with two children and an old dairy farm. No longer on the island, she has been refurbished and is ordered to do farm work for Mr. Deftly summarizing the story of the first book to refresh readers’ memories (“You might remember her old life on a remote, wild island”), Brown ushers readers into the details of Roz’s new life. Now Roz is back in The Wild Robot Escapes.

Roz is left with severe damage, and readers are left craving a sequel. At the close of The Wild Robot, she and her devoted wildlife friends bravely fight and destroy robots sent to capture and reprogram her. Stranded on a secluded island, Roz makes a home and even raises a gosling as her own son. For fans of Peter Brown’s acclaimed middle-grade novel, The Wild Robot, it’s been two long years of waiting and wondering about the fate of Roz, the book’s beloved title robot.

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