The book author is by Peter Brown, if you don't know he is then you're missing out. I would give The Wild Robot about 4.5 stars. To me it is a really good book but there is up and downs. I think if you are sensitive you probably don't want to read this. The following are reviews from my students: And I will ride it with them again and again! We have laughed, cried, and everything in between on this emotional rollercoaster. Many children's authors don't think kids can handle real sadness in books, but they absolutely fall in love with this book each year because it has so much depth. There is a bit of gun violence and definitely some death and sadness, but all of my second graders have been able to handle it.
There are so many connections between characters for students to make. There is emotional complexity that really brings out the higher comprehension skills in students, and I'm continually amazed by their reactions and thoughts. The story is so engaging-each year my students say it should be a movie and I must agree. Further, a strong emphasis is placed on identifying one's audience and adjusting the delivery accordingly.I have so enjoyed reading this book to my second grade class for the past two years, and will continue to do so each year. Students are practically introduced to basic aspects of drama pedagogy, phonation, voice coaching, and to simplified concepts of target language (TL) prosody. Students are thoroughly familiarised with what is a successful spoken performance. For this class, a format piloted by Anke Stöver-Blahak at the University of Hanover in Germany has been adapted to the Japanese teaching context. At Aichi Prefectural University a special class has been developed in order to tackle this problem.
Too often, student recitals are delivered either in a monotonous fashion with too little attention being paid to segmental phonology and prosody, or highlighting measures like pitch or volume are overused or inappropriately applied. However, preparations often neglect important aspects of a good delivery. Speech and recital contests are not rare in the language learning landscape of Japan and elsewhere.
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