Peter Brown, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling middle grade book, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that he plans to take the titular robot Roz on plenty more adventures.

His doting owners, Madge and Bernie Wubbington, tote him in a baby In this tongue-in-cheek role reversal, a girlish bear named Lucy makes a pet ... to Brown's middle-grade debut, The Wild Robot ...