Rocket to the Moon!: Big Ideas That Changed the World #1

Don Brown has created a graphic novel on space flight that will make reading non-fiction much more approachable and appealing for many students in grades 4 and up. There is more text than in most books in the genre, but the illustrations will enable even struggling readers to comprehend the momentous accomplishments in America’s early adventures into space. While some of history’s tragedies in rockets are included, the coverage is appropriate for the target age group.A 2020-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee

After an extremely brief history of rocketry (starting with the discovery of gunpowder in China and getting to twentieth century in four pages), the book takes a quick look at the Cold War space race that inspired John F. Kennedy's interest in getting a man on the moon. Kennedy, at the beginning of the 1960s, challenged NASA and the country to get a man safely to the moon and back by the end of the decade. The book explains the various Apollo missions before Apollo XI, which landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon.The book is faithful to the history while adding a comic narrator who has little to do with the story other than providing occasional jokes. The format is a pale imitation of the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales books--the humor is weak and he doesn't provide any interesting insights into the situation. The book describes the other missions. I was amazed at how much of the moon got explored. The book does have a bibliography for further reading.Slightly recommended.

This is my first Brown Book, but it will not be my last! Rocket to the moon! takes us back in time to when we, of course, landed on the moon, but in such a fresh and fun way! I was literally sharing interest facts with my husband as I read through this comic-like children’s book! Such as the shuttle held 950,000 gallons of fuel and used up 500,000 gallons of it within the first two and a half minutes! Wow! That is awesome!. The illustrations were wonderful and I loved everything about the book! I am impressed!

This is a nice and funny book, but also educational. Full color on paperback. But kindle form only has black and white.