After we finished the first, he said, “There has to be another book” and one day came bounding in the door with the sequel. We are now about 70% off the way through with The Wild Robot Escapes and I am not ready to say goodbye to Roz, Brightbill etc and I am hoping for a third book. She’ll make 6th Grade ELA her home while using The Wild Robot and the Wild Robot Escapes as inspiration. Last year, when my only daughter went off to college, the chapters where Brightbill leaves on his first migration and the reunion of Roz and Brightbill afterward and on Hilltop Farm were read with a choked voice through tears.

So I considered using a gender-neutral pronoun, like “ze,” or inventing a pronoun just for my robot characters, like “re,” but the story was challenging enough without having to explain invented grammar. In addition, these books have both provided so many examples to use in my reading lessons, and it’s helped my kids grow so much already.Her head turned and turned, all the way around, and it didn’t stop turning until she was looking right at the otters. In addition to bite marks and claw marks, the robot was also covered in dirt, which, of course, meant it was time for another cleaning. I have been reading The Wild Robot and now The Wild Robot Escapes to my 2nd Graders for read aloud this year.

My grand ma said I should look on your web site to see if there is a sequel to the story and I was happy to see you are writing one!Whether we are distance learning or In Person Learning, together as a class or separated into “cohorts”, the Wild Robot is something we consistently share. She dusted herself off and then carefully climbed up a leaning slab of stone, to the very highest point of the entire mountain. They galloped back across the robot gravesite, flopped into the ocean, and raced through the waves just as fast as they could. She watched the stars come out, one by one, until the sky was filled with a million points of light. I loved that Roz learned the animal language so quickly I also liked that Roz had a son and it was not a robot but it was a goose .

When I told my class that book 3, The Wild Robot Protects, will be out next year, they asked me to promise to get it asap and read it to them! Am so eager to share The Wild Robot with our favorite seven year old and to share your inspiring, instructive, fun, and REAL story of its creation with art teachers and students as a fabulous resource. This comprehension resource covers pages 226 – 229 of the story and includes a range of questions to stretch your Lower Key Stage 2 children in their understanding of the text. But Brown takes some liberties -- for instance, the animals observe a "Dawn Truce" so they can meet each day as a community without threat of predators stalking prey.I remember reading it and imagining the pictures moving, and if this were to become a movie/series, I would want it to stick with the same art style. I loved them so much because nature/wildlife and tech/robots are two of my favorite things and to have them in one book is amazing. It wasn’t a graceful process, but I survived the stress and the solitude and the crippling self-doubt, and now my novel has entered the world. This seemed a little archaic, but it’s easier for everyone to keep track of changes if they’re all in one physical document. They say that they can picture the story happening in their heads because of how descriptive your writing is – this is crossing over to their writing as well =).