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Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect: wild, natural, harmonious. Her son Brightbill has even found a mate! But then, one day an injured seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are flowing toward the island—and soon the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources.
Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. And when the robot discovers that her new body is waterproof, she marches into the waves and sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide.
During her undersea journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and she sees the devastation caused by the toxic waters. Creatures she meets along the way direct her to a mysterious character known as the Ancient Shark, who explains that the poison tide is caused by a huge station that floats on the waves; a station operated by humans and by robots. To stop them, the Ancient Shark is prepared to attack with an army of sea creatures. However, Roz hopes to find a peaceful solution, instead.
Can the wild robot save the ocean and her island and everything she loves?
'An engaging tale that explores many important themes. We can only hope that Roz serves as the template for all future robots. Peter Brown's illustrations are as marvellous as ever!' Coralie Bickford-Smith, author of THE FOX AND THE STAR
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realises that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home - until, one day, her mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide. By turns funny, moving, surprising and dramatic, this is a novel that is as thought-provoking as it is enchanting.
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown
Roz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home, befriend its animal inhabitants and even adopt a small orphaned gosling, Brightbill.
But a new life is now beginning for Roz - she has been taken away, far away from her island, back to civilisation. Where she must pretend that she is a robot like any other - there to follow orders and to carry out tasks on the farm where she now works. She knows she must never let anyone find out who she really is. And more than anything, she must find a way to escape, back to the island and her beloved Brightbill - a journey that will be fraught with danger and drama, and some very unexpected surprises ...
Are you bored with being sensible? Do you want to have more fun? Mr. Tiger knows exactly how you feel. Fed up with tea parties, top hats and talking about the weather, he astounds his friends when he decides to go... WILD. But does he go too far? After all, the wilderness can get pretty lonely.
Mr Tiger Goes Wild is a beautifully illustrated and brilliantly funny book from Caldecott Honor-winning artist Peter Brown that shows that there's a time and place for everything... even going wild. Peter Brown is also the creator of many other books including the fantastically funny My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not).
Dirty Enlightenment is a stripped-down, radical presentation of the
Nature of Reality and your spiritual place in it. In actuality, you
are a miraculously present infinite field of transcendental being
presenting itself to itself as subtle radiant energy of pure
intelligence. This truth is consonant with the view of Dzogchen,
Kashmir Shaivism, Kundalini Yoga, primal Buddhism, and with all
radical spiritual traditions. Since this is already and eternally
the sole condition, the spiritual challenge is merely to recognize
that this is the case. With the simple recognition of the nature of
your actual condition, you are freed from the confused implications
of any misinterpretations of what your condition is, that you may
have been laboring under. The apparent "imperfection" that you may
believe your life to be, is in fact already and inherently an
entirely transcendental, miraculous eternal perfection, and it can
be easy to discover this fact with self-verifying certainty.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR DREAMWORKS ANIMATION!
Includes an insert of full-colour images from the film!
The heartwarming and action-packed illustrated novel exploring what
happens when nature and technology collide.
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that
she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got
there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive.
After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she
realises that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her
surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like
home - until, one day, her mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
The thrilling sequel to the #1 New York Timesbestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown.
Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot,about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Chaucer at Work is a new kind of introduction to the Canterbury
Tales. It avoids excessive amounts of background information and
involves the reader in the discovery of how Chaucer composed his
famous work. It presents a series of sources and contexts to be
considered in conjunction with key passages from Chaucer's poems.
It includes sets of questions to encourage the reader to examine
the text in detail and to build on his or her observations. This
well-informed and practical guide will prove invaluable reading to
those studying medieval literature at undergraduate level and
English literature at A level.
Can a robot survive in the wilderness?
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
Roz is not where she's supposed to be.
Roz the robot wasn't designed to live in the wilderness. But when she
washes up on an island, she must learn from the animal inhabitants and
adapt to her new, natural surroundings, and before long, the island
begins to feel like home.
Filled with Peter Brown's stunning artwork, this moving picture book is
the perfect gift for readers new to THE WILD ROBOT or for longtime fans
of the series that sparked a global phenomenon.
New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for
understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but
Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England
married Anne, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Charles's splendid court in Prague was renowned across Europe for
its patronage of literature, art and architecture, and Anne and her
entourage brought with them some of its glamour and allure - their
fashions, extravagance and behaviour provoking comment from English
chroniclers. For Chaucer, a poet and diplomat affiliated to
Richard's court, Anne was more muse than patron, her influence
embedded in a range of his works, including the Parliament of
Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women and
Canterbury Tales. This volume shows Bohemia to be a key European
context, alongside France and Italy, for understanding Chaucer's
poetry, providing a wide perspective on the nature of cultural
exchange between England and Bohemia in the later fourteenth
century. The contributors consider such matters as court culture
and politics, the writings of Richard Rolle, artistic style, Troy
stories, historiographic writing and travel narrative; they
highlight the debt Chaucer owed to Bohemian culture, and the
affinities between English and Bohemian literary production,
whether in the use of Petrarch's tale of Griselde, the iconography
of the tapster figure, or satires on the Passion of Christ.
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