Peter Brown: The Wild Robot Protects

Hi everyone

The Wild Robot Protects is the third and last part (I think) in Peter Brown's The Wild Robot series.
I got my copy from Bol.

"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."

The Wild Robot is a series for children, something my almost 8 year old daughter would read if I had bought it in Dutch (our mother tongue). It's certainly entertaining, the illustrations are wonderful and the story is easy to read and fun. But this particular book was boring. The plot is really slow and I felt my mind wander multiple times. It takes ages for the islanders to do something and it takes even longer for Roz to reach her destination. There's not much else going on. The tone was very preachy. Humans = bad. Animals = good. There's no nuance and it's too moralistic.
So yeah, the first and second book in the series were very enjoyable, this one not as much.

Happy reading.
Helena