Children’s author and illustrator Peter Brown has been doing his best to provide those answers over the past few years with his New York Times best-selling Wild Robot series.

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’s obsession with the abandoned railway that became the High Line led to two best sellers — including “The Wild Robot,” which is now a blockbuster movie.