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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.450092
EAN: 9780395884010
ISBN: 0395884012
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: September 28, 1998
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Sales Rank: 1069321
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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Product Description:
As a young boy, Neil Armstrong had a recurring dream in which he held his breath and floated high above the people, houses, and cars. He spent his free time reading stacks of flying magazines, building model airplanes, and staring through the homemade telescope mounted on the roof of his neighbor's garage. As a teenager, Neil became obsessed with the idea of flight, working odd jobs to pay for flying lessons at a nearby airport. He earned his student pilot's license on his sixteenth birthday. But who was to know that this shy boy, who also loved books and music, would become the first person to set foot on the moon, on July 20, 1969. Here is the inspiring story of one boy's dream - a dream of flying that landed him more than 200,000 miles away in space, gazing upon the awesome sight of a tiny earth hanging suspended in a perfectly black sky. On the thirtieth anniversary of the moon landing, Don Brown's expressive story reveals the achievement of this American legend, Neil Armstrong, re
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Unlike Mr. Brown's beautiful children's books about Ruth Law, Mary Kingsley and Alice Ramsey, everybody knows who Neil Armstrong was. To be sure the three women I just mentioned did amazing things for their time. But Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. This book shows us Neil as a child. We see how at six he loved airplanes, how he made airplane models, how he took an airplane ride in a plane with only twelve wicker seats. We see him watch planes at the airport, really get the feel ... Read More
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This biography is without a doubt Brown's best picturebook biography to date. He really has written an engaging biography of Armstrong. My second graders went back to this book time and again after I read it aloud! One of my students () used it as a primary source for her biography on Neil Armstrong...and she wrote a great bio too! A great addition to a classroom library or school library biography section!
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Don Brown's book "One Giant Step: the Story of Neil Armstrong" is great. It approaches the story of America's most famous astronaut from a truly unique perspective. Even as an adult I found it compelling.The illustrations are colorful, lively watercolors with distinctive style and charm. Few have mastered the art writing children's books. Fewer have mastered the art of illustrating them. Don Brown has done both.
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My kids crave far more information than this book provided. They would have like more photographs of this famous man, not cartoonish, childish illustrations.
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No one is telling history to young children quite the way that Don Brown is -- clearly, factually, and without the unnecessary treacle and syrup. History is beguiling enough as it is. Brown's admiration for his subject comes through in his direct and Hemingway-esque style. Armstrong was a hero who started as a boy with a dream, literally. My children were smitten, as was I. THIS BOOK IS A NO-FAIL GIFT for boys and girls. We hope to hear, and see, more from this fantastic author-illustrator. ... Read More
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