Parents' Guide to The Wild Robot on the Island

Before the title page, a crate falls off a cargo ship during a storm at sea. When the crate washes ashore on an island inhabited by animals, and opens up, readers meet THE WILD ROBOT ON THE ISLAND. "This must be where I belong," she says. She realizes she must adapt and "become wild" to survive, so she observes what the animals do: how they move, hide, and communicate. She learns to speak their language so she can communicate with them. They had feared she was a monster. "I am not a monster," she tells them. "I am a robot. My name is Roz." She finds an orphaned goose egg, decides to raise him as her own, and names him Brightbill. He grows into a fine bird, and in the autumn, his "instincts were telling him to fly south for the winter." Roz tells him, "I will be here when you return in the spring." The story ends with Brightbill returning, and "mother and son were finally together again."