Baseball on Mars | Beisbol en marte
Written by Tim Hoppey and Rafael Rivera | Piñata Books
Ages 4 to 8 | ISBN 978-1558855212
Roberto's dad speaks in Spanish when he gets upset, and boy, is he unhappy today! His lucky chair, the one he sits in to watch his beloved New York Yankees play, is missing. Roberto is about to take off to Mars on his home-made rocket ship, and his dad's lucky chair makes a perfect pilot's seat. During the exciting flight to Mars, Roberto helps his father rediscover his imagination. His dad doesn't even mind that he missed the Yankees' game!
Named to the 2010-2011 Tejas Star Book Award List.
“Reminiscent of Ezra Jack Keats’s Regards to the Man in the Moon (1981), this Spanish bilingual family story is complete with a makeshift spaceship from odds and ends, an eager astronaut with a fanciful adventurous spirit and Rodriguez’s deeply colored, realistic paintings that juxtapose the actual backyard play with the whimsy of a planetary voyage.”
