Red Rover

Curiosity on Mars

Book cover with the title Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars in large white text that features a painting of the Mars Curiosity rover climbing up a rocky red hill.

A gorgeously illustrated tale 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.

by Richard Ho, illustrated by Katherine Roy
Roaring Brook Press, October 29, 2019. Ages 3-6 years

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Critical Praise for Red Rover

  • This will be welcomed by browsers and budding astronomers alike.

    — School Library Journal

  • 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.

    — Publisher’s Weekly

Painting by Katherine Roy of the Curiosity rover from above on a sandy orange Martian landscape.
Painting by Katherine Roy of the Curiosity rover looking down as climbs a hill in a brightly lit Martian landscape.
Painting by Katherine Roy of the Curiosity rover from above looking small on a dusty orange Martian landscape.