Rocket to the Moon! (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781419734045)

Award-winning author Don Brown explores the history of rocket building in this installment of the Big Ideas That Changed the World 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.


Author: Don Brown
ISBN-10: 1419734040
ISBN-13: 9781419734045
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 501747 / Rocket to the Moon!


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2019 pg. 86
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2018 pg. 124
Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019
Booklist 03/15/2019 pg. 57
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2019

About the Author
Don Brown is the award-winning author and illustrator of many picture-book biographies. His books have been given a Sibert Medal and an Orbis Pictus Award, among other awards and notice. He lives in Merrick, New York.