My 7 -year -old son conducted an interview with the author “The Wild Robot”

When the author and painter Peter Brown began writing “The Wild Robot”, he did not go to a studio or café – he went to Catskills, Maine and Pacific Northwest to find inspiration. When I had the opportunity to communicate with Brown, I knew that I had to resort to an expert who truly appreciated the book: My 7 -year -old son.

Brown and my son told me about an interview with a video: “I tried to spend a lot of time in a wild area as much as I could to feed my imagination, and give me little ideas, and remind myself of the kind of sounds that I hear when you are in the woods.”

This interference-mechanical and natural-sits in the heart of “The Wild Robot”, which is a popular Brown novel and now a major animated image nominated for the Academy Award from Dreamworks. “The last place you expect to find a robot in the wild,” Braun explained. “Thus I thought, well, this is a kind of interesting.”

My three children agree. They are so just that we have finished buying it, but also obtaining the book to read the original story, which we have already enjoyed several times. My son had a lot of questions to ask Brown, whether he liked robots to whether there would be more films that starred in his favorite robot, Rose.

He wanted readers to take care of the robot

To prepare for the interview, my son and I talked about our favorite parts in the movie and the book. I asked him about what he wanted to ask Brown, and surprised me how much he wanted to know, including the reason for the lack of a robot’s mouth but he could still speak, more deep questions, as a father, move me.

For those who are not hard -line fans like us, “The Wild Robot” follows the Rozzum 7134 unit (also known as Roz), a machine that washed to the beach on a remote island and you should learn to survive – and at the end, flourish – between wildlife. “This is a very extreme fish from the water story,” said Brown. “You take this advanced technological character and put it in the lowest technological place you can imagine.”

The hypothesis of the book is simple, but the emotional arc is complex. Imagine Brown is a robot that becomes “more natural and brutal than someone.”

My husband and I cried in different scenes of the movie because Rose mentioned the different stages of paternity and motherhood that we went through, or helping our children to learn how to walk, or we learn ourselves how to allow them to leave and become their own person. “This is the main goal of the author – to ensure that readers take care of,” said Brown.

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As most of the artificial intelligence images tend towards Dystopian, brown aims to something different. “We are aware of stories of robots, such as the robot uprising,” he said. “I thought it was interesting to show a more optimistic vision of what the future could look like.”

It supports that vision with research, not just imagination. Braun visited NASA’s jeta and spoke with scientists who design robots to explore other planets. “They are already using robots to communicate with animals.”

Rose, Braun believes, can be found one day.

There may be a movie supplement

Brown has always loved animation, and was the adaptation of the first book of the Three Books series to a surreal experience. “Before I started writing children’s books, I have already worked in animation,” he said. So when Dreamworks continued, saying they wanted to adapt the book to a movie, he was very excited.

He hopes to have a complement, which was one of the most important questions that my son had because he wanted more Rose. “I am sure that there will be at least one movie,” he said.

My son shared with Brown how to spend his twin sisters, who are younger than him, when my husband reads the original book because he does not contain illustrations on each page. The last Brown project, “Wild robot on the island“It is an adaptation of a photo book for the original novel, aimed at an audience like my daughters.

Readers want to learn something from Rose

During the interview, Brown answered my son’s big questions and small questions with the same enthusiasm and attention to details. They talked about whether Brown has Roba (and he does not) and whether he had adopted anything like Rose in the story (his dog has adopted Pam).

My son surprised me by asking one of the most deep questions in the interview – what we can learn, as readers, from Rose. Brown hopes to be sympathy and interconnection. “Rose is learning that she needs help. She cannot do everything herself,” he said. “We all need each other; we must be good for each other because we will need each other at one stage or another.”

It is a message that Braun often forgets. But through the eyes of a robot (or in my case, during this interview, he is 7 years old) tries to understand the world, becomes new again.