ABANDONED. Sci-Fi Picture Book About Robot With Missing Parent

[Peter]

I'm trying to find a book I read when I was a child, I recalled it was a picture book of some kind, and as to the best of my memory, it was about a robot who's father, also a robot, was missing or otherwise absent. I think he had left to do something or go somewhere, and never came back. Then the main character went to go look for him, I think in space with a space ship?

I think I read this around 1998, to 2001?

[Kym]

Could it be Nova's Ark by David Kirk?

[Peter]

Kym wrote: "Could it be Nova's Ark by David Kirk?"
I thought so at fist, but that seems to be about a robot boy finding an energy source of some kind?

[Rosa]

Maybe it's about more than that.

[Kris]

Nova's Ark is quite distinctive in terms of the visuals. Scanning Amazon's Look Inside preview, there appears to bold graphic images (rather dark colors) on most/every page.

[Ayshe]

worldcat.org's description is: So begins David Kirk's futuristic picture book Nova's Ark, the somewhat complex story of a young robot named Nova, whose most precious possession (besides his robot dog "Sparky") is a brittle wooden ark and a set of carved animals made by humans in the ancient days of Roton. Nova misses his dad, who left on a space mission nearly a year ago. He dreams (when plugging himself into the dream console) of flying to the stars with his adventurous father. Exploration, it seems, is "in his wiring.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/novas-a...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Peter, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

Nova's Ark sounds like a very good possibility.

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Peter (OP) was last active on the site in February 2020.