Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's book author Peter Brown wrote his original "Wild Robot" book in Maine and now lives there among nature. (Yoon S. Byun / ...

Peter Brown, an author and illustrator, was drawing pictures for a children’s storybook when he sketched a robot standing alone in a tall pine tree. The sketch, he realized, didn’t work for his ...

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 leave ...

Writer/director Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Lilo & Stitch) once again proves why he is one of the greats in multi-level animated storytelling: The Wild Robot movie is both a ...

There are rare moments in the culture when a children's book resonates with everyone. Parents who buy the book for their kids find themselves moved by a story that is not intended for them but somehow ...

Craig Fehrman, a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, recently watched his young son, Henry, read “The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown and wrestle with the feelings the book brought up. In this ...