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One Small Step: A Scrapbook

Celebrating the First Men on the Moon
Jerry Stone
$24.95
ISBN: 1596434910
Format: Hardcover
 
Pub Date: 04/01/2009
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Shipping Weight: 1.82lbs
   
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2009 is the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Each of the kids books I’ve reviewed has its own strengths. This one takes the original tack of being a scrap-book assembled by a contemporary 12-year-old, named Mike – after astronaut Michael Collins, one of the crew-members of Apollo 11. Mike’s mom works for NASA so he’s been able to collect a lot of unique items. This is not a 3-dimensional pop-up book, but the publisher has cleverly used different paper stocks and printing techniques so that photographs are on separate small glued-in backings. There are lots of flaps to lift for additional information. There’s a press pass taped in on the launch-day pages, and a metallic etched plate which reproduces the plaque placed on the lunar lander. The front page of the New York Times from July 21, 1969 is folder over and pasted in a few pages later. Each graphic or picture has its own extended caption. Each one explains a particular facet or event in the moon landing. The result is very much a you-were-there feel. The book seemed to me to effectively convey a much more real sense of what the events were really about and how they were experienced by those who lived through them.
 
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