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.

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to ...

Peter Brown was in Manhattan’s meatpacking district in 2002 when he noticed a few hardy branches dangling from a dingy overpass near Gansevoort Street. “I thought, That’s strange,” Brown said.