Moonshot : the flight of Apollo 11
Record details
- ISBN: 9781534440302
- ISBN: 1534440305
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Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
print - Edition: Expanded edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2009
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Expanded for the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing." "A Richard Jackson book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 4 up. |
Awards Note: | New York Times Best Illustrated, 2009. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Space flight to the moon Apollo 11 (Spacecraft). Project Apollo (U.S.). |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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- Baker & Taylor
Provides an up-close look at the historic mission to the moon that took place fifty years ago. - Baker & Taylor
A newly expanded edition combines simple text and vibrant illustrations to introduce a new generation of young science enthusiasts to the history-making Apollo 11 moon landing. By the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of Locomotive. 30,000 first printing - Simon and Schuster
'An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age.' 'The New York Times Book Review
Brian Floca explores Apollo 11's famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot!
Simply told, grandly shown, and now with eight additional pages of brand-new art and more in-depth information about the historic moon landing, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. Here is a story of adventure and discovery'a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away. - Simon and Schuster
âAn extraordinary delight for a reader of any age.â âThe New York Times Book Review
Brian Floca explores Apollo 11âs famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot!
Simply told, grandly shown, and now with eight additional pages of brand-new art and more in-depth information about the historic moon landing, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. Here is a story of adventure and discoveryâa story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away.