This beautifully illustrated children's book tells the story of the Apollo Missions, when incredible intelligence, engineering and bravery allowed humans to stand on the surface of something other than Earth for the very first time.
"When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the surface of the Moon, I cried."
From the 1969 first moon landing to the amazing rescue of Apollo 13, each chapter tells the story of a different mission . Humorous details bring the astronauts to life: discover how the astronauts of Apollo 12 were so over-excited when they stepped onto the Moon that Mission Control had to tell them to quieten down, and Shepard (Apollo 14) somehow managed to smuggle a golf club onto his spacecraft!
Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing , this is the perfect book for any child who has ever looked up at the moon and wondered what it might be like to go there.
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Writer and historian David Long is the author of the acclaimed Animals' VC: For Gallantry and Devotion and more than twenty other non-fiction books on a wide range of historical subjects. Jet the Rescue Dog, the first of several titles for younger readers, was published by Faber in 2014. He lives in Suffolk and has two teenage sons.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was an American novelist and short story writer. SAM KALDA is a Brooklyn illustrator with a penchant for weaving narrative into his illustrations. His use of patterns and simple lines create work that is both quirky and attractive. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Architect Magazine, and many o
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