Product Details
Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, April 2009
Hardcover, 48 pages
ISBN-10: 141695046X
ISBN-13: 9781416950462
Ages: 4 and up
Grades: P and up
Awards and Nominations
- Kirkus Best Children's Book
- NAPPA Gold Award Winner
- New York Times Best Illustrated Books
- NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Description
Simply told, grandly shown, 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.
Temple Daily Telegram, July 29, 2009
...Going to the moon wasn't his childhood dream. But drawing it was. And that's just what Brian Floca did when he grew up. The 1987 graduate of Temple High School drew the big, bright moon on the cover of 'Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11,' ...
Indiana Gazette, July 19, 2009
...great new books: To children, something that happened 40 years ago can seem dry and uninteresting, but author-illustrator Brian Floca exercises his considerable talents to impress upon young readers the excitement and the danger of the ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 15, 2009
...new books: ? To children, something that happened 40 years ago can seem dry and uninteresting, but author-illustrator Brian Floca exercises his considerable talents to impress upon young readers the excitement and the danger of the Apollo 11 ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 14, 2009
...By Karen MacPherson, Scripps Howard News Service 'Moonshot' by Brian Floca is among new books celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. When America was over the moon Forty years ago this month, two humans stepped ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 14, 2009
...new books: ? To children, something that happened 40 years ago can seem dry and uninteresting, but author-illustrator Brian Floca exercises his considerable talents to impress upon young readers the excitement and the danger of the Apollo 11 ...
Seattle Times, July 11, 2009
...new books: " To children, something that happened 40 years ago can seem dry and uninteresting, but author-illustrator Brian Floca exercises his considerable talents to impress upon young readers the excitement and the danger of the Apollo 11 ...
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