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Moon Landing

Don Brown

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English
Abrams
05 March 2019
Series: Big Ideas
Award-winning author/illustrator Don Brown explores the history of rocket building in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World graphic novel series.

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong said those iconic words when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. But it wasn’t just one man who got us to the moon—there was a whole team of people, plus centuries of discoveries and technologies that came before that made it possible.

From ancient Chinese rockets to the first steps on the moon, Rocket to the Moon! Reveals which “bombs bursting in air” inspired the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” why the Russians wanted to launch a dog into Earth’s atmosphere, and how exactly astronauts are able to go to the bathroom while in a rocket far off in space!

Big Ideas That Changed the World is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard-won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor, drama, and art unite to tell the story of events, discoveries, and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a big idea and then make it come true.

Big Ideas That Changed the World series: Rocket to the Moon! (#1) Machines That Think! (#2) A Shot in the Arm! (#3) We the People! (#4) All Charged Up! (#5)

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Imprint:   Abrams
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 146mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   440g
ISBN:   9781419734045
ISBN 10:   1419734040
Series:   Big Ideas
Pages:   136
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 8 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture book biographies. School Library Journal has called him a current pacesetter who has put the finishing touches on the standards for storyographies. His books have been given a Sibert Award, an Orbis Pictus Award, named a Horn Book Best Book, and was an Eisner nominee, among other awards and notice. He lives in New York with his family. booksbybrown.com/about-don/

Reviews for Moon Landing

**STARRED REVIEW** Keeping the tone light and offering nods as he goes to historical figures . . . he focuses on technological advances that made space travel possible and on the awesome, sustained effort that brought President John F. Kennedy's Big Idea to fruition . . . A frank, often funny appreciation of our space program's high-water mark. --Kirkus Reviews


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