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Nova's Ark: The book & toy set
(Hardcover, 1999)
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Author: David Kirk
Nova, a robot boy from the planet Roton, accidentally rockets himself into space during a class fiel...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0590282085
ISBN-13: 9780590282086
Mar 1999
Publisher: Scholastic
38 pages
Grade:
From 2 to 3
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Nova, a robot boy from the planet Roton, accidentally rockets himself into space during a class field trip and eventually stumbles across the energy source his planet needs for survival.
| Size | | Length: | 38 pages | | Height: | 12.3 in | | Width: | 9.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 18.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
In this bittersweet tale of sentient robots, Kirk replaces the lush organic scenery of his Miss Spider series with richly colorful industrial shapes. Nova, a square-headed, swivel-jointed droid, owns the title relic: a fanciful wooden ark containing a set of miniature animals. "A ship like this would never fly, he thought, but in those distant times men traveled this planet on seas of water a liquid that had vanished from Roton long ago." While Nova plays with the ark, he wonders how his star-pilot dad is doing on a mission to find needed fuel for planet Roton. Nova's curiosity about his father leads him on an interstellar mission, during which his skills as an inventor (he creates robotic versions of the animals of the ark and converts one of them to a spaceship) help him and his planet survive. Kirk's sharp-contrast images of spacecraft and rocky surfaces glow with Martian red light and lime-green accents, and appear remarkably three-dimensional. The orbiting ship seems to fly out of the book and into readers' space. Nova's animal friends (among them a metallic Miss Spider) help lift the gloomy mood, as do the hero's charming customs of drinking and bathing in motor oil. Yet the dense, unrhymed prose and stark high-tech imagery can't simulate cheer; Nova's universe is impersonal and bleak. Kirk's melancholy tale imparts a mournful message of a bygone Earth, despite a happy ending for the amiable automatons. Ages 4-7. (Mar.)
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Gr 2-4-The creator of the popular "Miss Spider" introduces Nova, a futuristic metal boy whose waterless planet of robots depends on energy-generating crystal for survival. Exploring distant space for this resource, his star-pilot father has entrusted his son with a family heirloom, a wooden ark and animals "carved by men before robots ever existed." During a class trip to the Space Center, Nova slips away from the group for a closer look at a spaceship. Soon, he is hurtling through space, and Kirk's story quickly falls apart. Somehow, the boy travels unharmed for months before crash-landing on a rocky moon. He builds a menagerie of animals and a huge "elephant ark" with the remains of his spaceship. Nova's father crashes on the same moon and the boy saves his life with body parts donated by his metal animals. Together, they discover a huge amount of crystal, ride the elephant ark home, and become heroes. This seemingly endless series of far-fetched coincidences and annoyingly artificial events destroy what might have been an enjoyable tale of family devotion. The book jacket notes that Kirk is working on a full-length animated film featuring Nova. Popping off the page in 3-D fashion, the neon- and metallic-colored illustrations seem ready-made for the big screen. Unfortunately, flat characters and a contrived plot make them appear more gimmicky than creative.-Alicia Eames, New York City Public Schools
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