
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--Katherine Roy is the award-winning author and illustrator of many science-based books for kids, including her Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, How to Be an Elephant: Growing Up in the African Wild, and Making More: How Life Begins. She is also the illustrator of numerous other books, including Barb Rosenstock's Otis and Will Discover the Deep, Richard Ho's Red Rover, and Kirsten W Larson's The Fire of Stars. She lives with her husband and sons in western Oregon.
You can visit her online at katherineroy.com.
"A winner for young Mars enthusiasts."-- School Library Journal
"Thoughtful, evocative, and impeccably illustrated..."--The Horn Book " It's the contrast between Curiosity's cheery determination and the forbidding world it inhabits that gives the book its power."--Publishers Weekly "A keeper."--Kirkus Reviews