Cannonball Read 18

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I Didn’t Expect the Robot to Become a Mom

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

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I haven’t seen The Wild Robot movie yet, but as soon as I saw the trailers a couple years ago, I knew I wanted to see it. And I always like to read the book first, so I picked up the first two and finally got around to reading the first one. It’s about Roz the robot, who ends up on an uninhabited island after a cargo ship sinks. She is accidentally activated by otters (never thought that would be a sentence I’d write) and learns to […]

Mama robot

The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown

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Cbr17bingo Red (the red that highlights the top of the cover) The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown is currently available, yet I read via an online reader. This picture book is based off of the novel also by Brown. It takes the highlights of the first book (or I am assuming as I have not had the chance to read the series yet) and adapts them for the five and up crowd. Overall the book is fun and cute. It has moments […]

Another Wild Robot book!

The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown

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This book is from the Wild Robot series, by Peter Brown. This series, and this book in particular, is heartwarming and charming. This book could cheer you up after any kind of day. This also comes with the advent of the movie just released based on the first book, which I have not seen yet, but am excited to. Let’s just get right into it I suppose. So first, assuming you’ve read the other two books, there are quite a few similarities. It is equally […]

A heartwarming book I adore

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

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This book is set in the future, in which robots do everything, and anything. It follows a robot by the name of Roz as she learns to survive in the wild after crashing into an isolated island. She has to learn to communicate with animals by watching their patterns and learning from them. However, she’s a foreign object, made of metal and quite loud. Then, one horrible day, she accidentally kills a family of ducks by crushing their nest. One egg survives, and it’s now […]

It remains a heartwarming story

The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown

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This book is a sequel, set in the same world as the first one. (A future run by robots) It follows Roz again, this time as she is taken from her home and her son and put on a farm to work. She wishes to escape and return to her family on her island, but the two children who live on the farm discover her intentions before she can run. This book is truly adorable, and a good reminder of human compassion, especially in today’s […]

Ok, yes I was creeped out a little

Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds

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With a nod to Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown’s other collaboration, Creepy Pair of Underpants! (and possibly the first Creepy Tales title Creepy Carrots! which I might have missed) their rabbit hero Jasper is back in Creepy Crayon! Jasper is failing his classes. Of course, he could have studied but his favorite TV show was on. And well, there is always something more important (or interesting) than math.  But when he finds a purple crayon (that oddly enough seems pleased to be picked up off […]



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