Red Rover
Curiosity on Mars
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
Red Rover is a gorgeously illustrated tale that explores the vast, inhospitable landscape of Mars and the adventures of the little rover that calls the planet its home.
Mars has a visitor.
It likes to roam...
observe...
measure...
and collect.
It explores the red landscape—
crossing plains, climbing hills,
and tracing the bottoms of
craters—in search of water
and life.
It is not the first to visit Mars.
It will not be the last.
But it might be...
the most curious.
Join Curiosity on its journey across the red planet in this innovative and dynamic nonfiction picture book by Richard Ho, illustrated by Sibert Honor winner Katherine Roy.
This title has Common Core connections.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this telling, the Curiosity rover resembles a less emotionally vulnerable, less anthropomorphized, but still adorable version of Pixar's WALL-E. "The little rover likes to roam"; it zips around Mars, taking pictures and samples because "it is curious. It wants to learn about the world around it." Besides, as debut author Ho reminds readers, this latest in a long, noble line of satellites and rovers is actually in constant communication with "whoever sent it. It tells them what it is like here." It's the contrast between Curiosity's cheery determination and the forbidding world it inhabits that gives the book its power: Roy (Otis and Will Discover the Deep) renders many evocative images, among them a sandstorm created from swirling strokes of red, orange, and gray, and a double gatefold that drives home just how vast, red, and rocky the Red Planet is. Readers may be thrown and perhaps a little disappointed when the point of view shifts in the final pages from the eager Curiosity to the imperious Mars itself ("They call me Mars. I am not like your World"). But ultimately, the message remains the same: no one, and nothing, in the universe is truly alone. Ages 3 6.
