Create Your Own Graphic Novel with Jonathan Roth

Name: Create Your Own Graphic Novel with Jonathan Roth
Start: 2024-10-12T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 11911 Freedom Dr, Reston, VA, United States, Virginia 20190

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

11911 Freedom Dr, Reston, VA, United States, Virginia 20190 | Reston, VA

Join us at Scrawl Books on October 12 at 2PM as we welcome Jonathan Roth! Jonathan will be teaching a Create Your Own Graphic Novel workshop for kids in honor of the release of Rover and Speck: It’s a Gas! This is the third installment in Jonathan Roth’s popular graphic novel series about an endearingly mismatched pair of space-traveling rover friends: organized and careful Rover, and impulsive, excitable Speck.
Order ahead here: https://www.scrawlbooks.com/event/create-your-own-graphic-novel-jonathan-roth

ABOUT THE BOOK
Rover and Speck are loose on an unknown gas giant planet. Will they survive? And what’s so funny about “gas” anyway?
Rover and Speck have found a new kind of planet to explore – a gas giant! The pair don’t know what to expect when they launch themselves from their spaceship, so they’re thrilled when they find life there. That is, until shark-like creatures start shooting sparks at them! And things only get worse when Rover is zapped out of commission by one of their bolts, leaving Speck to save the day on his own! Thankfully, Speck makes a new friend, Jelli, who’s happy to help him try to avoid the Spark Sharks and get Rover back to their spaceship for a reboot. But will they be able to do it in time?
This is the third installment in Jonathan Roth’s popular graphic novel series about an endearingly mismatched pair of space-traveling rover friends: organized and careful Rover, and impulsive, excitable Speck. It features classic, colorful comic-style art and a fast-moving character-driven plot, and is packed with jokes, including kid-perfect riffs on how funny it is to say “gas”. Illustrated sidebars supplement the story with accessible information about gases and space, and a built-in drawing activity is included at the end of the story, making this book an engaging tool to augment lessons on gases as well as earth and space systems.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author-illustrator Jonathan Roth has been fascinated with robotic space missions since the Viking lander sent back the first images from the surface of Mars. Jonathan, who teaches elementary art, lives in Rockville, Maryland, with his wife and two kitties, in a house on a rocky planet orbiting a fiery star in a barred spiral galaxy. He is also the author of the Beep and Bob series.