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Rocket To The Moon Paperback

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For readers who love true adventure stories, this is a beautifully illustrated account of the first lunar landing. With a carefully researched and dramatic story by Lisa Combs and detailed artwork by award-winning illustrator Robert F. Goetzl, Rocket to the Moon will hold readers spell-bound.

This is a very beautiful and very informative picture book. My son, who is interested in attending Space Camp, thought it was great. We read it together, and I even learned a few things. It reminded me how brave the astronauts are!

My 4 year old loved this book. He begged me to read it to him again and again. And I liked the emphasis on the human factor - the emotions of the astronauts and the drama of the flight. I also liked how the author worked in just enough technical details to inform, but not overwhelm a young child. And the pictures are beautiful.

This book was about the first rocket ship to go to the moon in 1969. Two men were chosen to walk on the moon,Neil Armstong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil Armstrong made the statment "That,s one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind". They collected moon rocks and did experiments. The walk on the moon was televised so everyone could see what was happening.

This book was not very exciting because I already knew what was going to happen. I wish they talked more about about how it felt to be wieghtless. I also thought the problems ended to quickly. I guess I wanted more details about what was happening. I didnt really enjoy this book.

What an unbelieveably cheesy piece of hackwork this is! Horrid illustrations and terrible editing abound in this slapdash effort, which is remarkable only in that someone actually financed the thing! If you want your children to learn about space, try books in the terrific NASA series instead of this knock-off stuff, which is neither informative nor educational.