“The Wild Robot,” the tale of an automaton’s struggle for survival on an island inhabited by animals, was chosen by young readers to win this year’s Massachusetts Children’s Book Award. The science ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's book author Peter Brown wrote his original "Wild Robot" book in Maine and now lives there among nature. (Yoon S. Byun / ...
Peter Brown, an author and illustrator, was drawing pictures for a children’s storybook when he sketched a robot standing alone in a tall pine tree. The sketch, he realized, didn’t work for his ...