Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
No. of pages 56
Published: 2019
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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.
This book has been graded for interest at 4+ years.
There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Simon & Schuster .
Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive , winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal; Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 , a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book; Lightship , also a Sibert Honor Book; and Racecar Alphabet , an ALA Notable Children's Book. He has illustrated Avi's Poppy Stories, Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels, and Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan's Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring , a Sibert Honor Book and winner of the Orbis Pictus Award. You can visit him online at BrianFloca. com.
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books For Children and Teens
This book was recognised in the Ages 7-10 Years category by the Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens.
Cybils Award
This book was recognised in the Nonfiction Picture Book category by the Cybils Award. The Cybils Awards is a group of readers passionate about seeking out and recognizing books that represent diversity, inclusion, and appropriate representation for children and teens. To accomplish that goal, the Cybils Awards works to recognize books written for children and young adults that combine both the highest literary merit and popular appeal.
Indies Choice Book Award
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Indies Choice Book Award.
Robert F Sibert Informational Book Award
This book was recognised by the Robert F Sibert Informational Book Award.
Nappa Gold Award
This book was recognised in the Ages 6+ category by the Nappa Gold Award.
Georgia Children's Book Award
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Georgia Children's Book Award.
Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award
This book was recognised in the Nonfiction - Transitional category by the Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award.
Monarch Award
This book was recognised by the Monarch Award.
Children's Book Committee Award
This book was recognised in the YA category by the Children's Book Committee Award.
Red Clover Award
This book was recognised by the Red Clover Award.
