In new picture books, children and robots join forces. Heavy construction machinery — bulldozers, diggers, tractors and the like — seem to have cornered the market when it comes to mechanical objects ...

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 ...

Fresh off the release of the hit movie adaptation and shortly before the 2025 Oscars, where the flick is nominated for three awards, Peter Brown, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling middle ...

My 7-year-old son and I interviewed Peter Brown together. As big fans of "The Wild Robot," we both had very different ...

Robots are having a moment in children’s literature, which seems fitting in an increasingly digital world. Eliot Schrefer looks at four new kids’ books full of bits and bytes and beeps and boops. *** ...

The Wild Robot has a long future ahead. Fresh off the release of the hit movie adaptation and shortly before the 2025 Oscars, where the flick is nominated for three awards, Peter Brown, author of the ...