Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

"An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age." --The New York Times Book Review

Brian Floca explores Apollo 11's famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot

Simply told, grandly shown, and now with eight additional pages of brand-new art and more in-depth information about the historic moon landing, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. Here is a story of adventure and discovery--a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away.

Author: Brian Floca
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Series: Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 11.80h x 10.60w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781534440302
Expanded Edition
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.8
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 129861 / Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2019 pg. 110
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 79
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of the acclaimed picture books Locomotive, winner of the Caldecott Medal and a New York Times bestseller; Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11; and Lightship, each a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. He is the illustrator of numerous additional books, including Avi's Poppy series. You can visit him online at BrianFloca.com.