Amazing New Children’s Book: Earth Rover Review
This was such a fun fictional children’s book. It was fictional while still being educational, which I love! It is uplifting, inspirational, hopeful, and adorable.
Earth Rover is the story of a dog, Rover, whose human is an astronaut. His dream is to become the next Lunar “Rover”, so that he may travel to space with his human, who he misses so very much when she is on her missions.
Rover writes a letter to NASA full of all the reasons he would be a better rover than the robots they currently use. It is FULL of dog puns, which I personally adore.
The pictures were beautiful, added to the story, and provided tons of context and discussion opportunity.
I was not expecting this book to be educational, but the author uses this book as an opportunity to teach young children about space and space travel. The end of this book provides fun facts about previous lunar missions, space exploration, and (of course!) lunar rovers.
*** Thank you to Netgalley and Familius for a free copy in exchange for my honest review.
