Peter Brown stripped down his original 'Wild Robot' story for beginning readers, keeping the underlying message about a man-made device that learns how to care for others.

Roz ends up playing mom to Brightbill (Kit Connor of "Heartstopper"), a newly hatched gosling whose nest Roz accidentally destroyed, along with his family, when she crashed onto the island.

Plus ‘Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob,’ ‘The Fierce Little Woman and the Wicked Pirate,’ ‘The Wild Robot on the Island’ and ...

With Roz and Brightbill inThe Wild Robot, Sanders hits the jackpot once again. Brightbill and Roz may be a goose and a robot, but so many of their interactions feel true to those between human ...

The main character, Rozzum 7134 (or “Roz,” as she comes to be known) is such a robot in transit, when a storm knocks the delivery off-course and leaves Roz stranded on an island full of only animals.

The Wild Robot follows Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), a robot stranded on an uninhabited island who soon finds herself responsible for taking care of Brightbill (Kit Conner), a baby goose.

Parenting isn’t easy — whether you’re a top-of-the-line robot or an Oscar-nominated composer. It’s a lesson Lupita Nyong’o’s Roz learns the hard way in “The Wild Robot,” DreamWorks ...