Moonshot
The Flight of Apollo 11
By Brian Floca
(Atheneum Books, Hardcover, 9781416950462, 48pp.)
Publication Date: April 2009
Categories: History - United States/20th Century, Technology - Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Summer 2009 Kids' List“Brian Floca skillfully tells the historic story of Apollo 11 with details in word and watercolor that will capture the imaginations of the youngest readers. A stand-out!”
-- Carol Moyer, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
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.
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