The Wild Robot (Book 1)

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

The Wild Robot is a trilogy by Peter Brown turned into a movie. It is about a robot who was on a cargo ship, heading to her new home. But there was a tragic storm that broke her boat, sending every robot onboard to wash up on an island. Only ROZZUM unit 7314 survived. As she lay on the island’s beach some otters swam up and turned her on.

Roz explored the island but no animal will approach her. Giving up she sits down and doesn’t move, learning about her surroundings. Soon she learns how to speak animal language. Finding no one to look after she walks until she sees a bear cave. She pokes her head in and asks if she could be of service.

The bear chases her out. As Roz runs for her life she accidentally knocks over a tree. As she inspects the destruction she finds one egg that hasn’t been hurt. She takes care of it until it hatches. Roz sets it down and tries to get rid of it. But the hatchling stays with her.

Giving up she decides to raise it to become what it was meant to be. A goose. Being a robot (not a goose) she has difficulties raising him. Brightbill (the goose) learns how to swim and eat. But needs help on flying. So Roz takes him to the other geese. The geese immediately reject him. All but one. Longneck (the leader) lets Brightbill join as long as he learns to fly.

With the help of Fink (the fox) and Thunderbolt (the peregrine falcon) Brightbill learns how to fly. Soon Brightbill has left his home and Roz has no job. Roz is in her hut she built for Brightbill and shuts off. Fink turns her on and says a bunch of animals are freezing to death (because it’s winter). Roz agrees and helps turn the hut into a sanctuary for frozen animals.

Soon it’s spring again and Brightbill returns. Just as everyone is settling down a ship appears. A space ship. In the ship is Votra and 3 body guard robots. They are sent here to reclaim Roz. Roz and the animals put up a fight against the other robots.

Roz eventually sees that she is the problem after an animal gets hurt. So she agrees and joins Votra onto the ship. Together they fly back to Roz’s maker.