Moonshot the flight of Apollo 11
Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Expanded edition. |
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| Summary: | Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines. |
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| Item Description: | "Expanded for the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing." "A Richard Jackson book." "The Robert F. Sibert Honor Book." |
| Physical Description: | 56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 4 up. |
| Awards: | New York Times Best Illustrated, 2009 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781534440302 1534440305 |
| Author Notes: | Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal. He has also written and illustrated Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, The Racecar Alphabet, and Five Trucks. He is the illustrator of the Poppy Stories series, by Avi; Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels; and Lynne Cox's forthcoming Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. His books have received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards, an Orbis Pictus Award, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have twice been selected for The New York Times' annual 10 Best Illustrated Books list. (Bowker Author Biography) |
