Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars

"Red Rover Curiosity on Mars" is an engaging nonfiction picture book that takes young readers on an imaginative yet factual journey across the Martian landscape through the eyes of the Curiosity rover. Gorgeously illustrated by Sibert Honor winner Katherine Roy, the book explores Mars's vast plains, towering hills, and deep craters, highlighting the rover's mission to find water and signs of life. It's perfect for children aged 4-11, offering a gentle introduction to space exploration, scientific inquiry, and the wonders of our solar system, with connections to Common Core standards.

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.