Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

Keng Lye, “Alive Without Breath,” acrylic on resin (all images courtesy the artist) Some of them even appear to be emerging from the static “water,” such as a turtle’s shell surfacing or the head of ...