This juvenile book has incredibly detailed and evoking imagery that makes the Moon landing of Apollo 11 much more tangible. The prose flows nicely and uses a tone and style accessible to children of all ages.

For me the illustrations really bind the book together and allow it to launch into the stratosphere. The finished product serves to ground the people involved in the lunar landing as regular people and not the gigantic mythos they've become. They were regular people who did something extraordinary Any child, or child at heart, can embrace this wonderful book ( )

What child has not thought about the wonders of space? The stars, the moon, the Milky Way? Here Brian Floca taps into his boyhood awe as he gazed into the heavens, and recreates the historic voyage of Apollo 11, in July 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his moonwalk.

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Vibrant paintings and simple prose bring the Apollo 11 moon landing to life in this excellent non-fiction picture book. ( )