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Moonshot

The Flight of Apollo 11

Moonshot( 3 customer ratings | )
Illustrator: Floca, Brian
Author: Floca, Brian
ISBN:978-1-4169-5046-2
Publication Date:Apr 2009
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Imprint:Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.99
Book Description:

Look for the newly expanded edition of Moonshot, coming in to orbit on April 9th, 2019! Brian Floca explores Apollo 11's famed moon landing with this beautifully illustrated picture book! Simply told, grandly shown, 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...
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Book Details
Pages:48
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):10.5 x 11.75 x 0.4 Inches
Book Weight:1.36 Pounds
Author Biography
Floca, Brian (Illustrator)
Brian Floca was born and raised in Temple, Texas. He graduated from Brown University and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts.

Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal. He has also written and illustrated Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, The Racecar Alphabet, and Five Trucks. He is the illustrator of the Poppy Stories series, by Avi; Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; Kate Messner's Marty McGuire novels; and Lynne Cox's forthcoming Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. His books have received four Robert F. Sibert Honor awards, an Orbis Pictus Award, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, and have twice been selected for The New York Times' annual 10 Best Illustrated Books list.

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