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Mark Haddon's autobiographical picture book tells a story I suspect played across thousands of living rooms in America in 1969 as Armstrong and company landed on the moon. A young boy watches and is enchanted. And while Haddon may not have ended up with space as a career, his love of it comes through loud and clear.
Weird, ethereal and eerie little short story that is quite good. Would liked it to have been longer but good nevertheless.
This is a children's book, and yeah I may be an adult (or meant to be)But it was enjoyableAnd the art, the art style and illustrations are lovely.
Lovely!
Christian Birmingham's illustrations wonderfully capture the wonder of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Fifty years ago today . . . Midnight had come and gone,but the boy was wide awakeand standing at the windowin his dressing gown,because two astronautswere walking on the surface of the moon, two hundred thousand milesabove his bedroom.A lovely look back at a special event that still gives me chills.
It was an okay story. Not the best I've ever read but it had a few moments that held my attention. Much of it felt like filler and really didn't contribute to the story.
Loved Hadden's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, although that book isn't for everyone. This story won't engage most young readers, but if they like astronauts and such, they might try The Darkest Dark and I'm sure there are others too if you ask any librarian.
What a lovely book to inspire curiosity in young children about planets and space! It is Mark Haddon’s (author of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’) recollections of when he was a young boy with a picture of the solar system on his bedroom wall, looking out of his window at night and wondering about the moon above him. He dreams of travelling to the moon and visiting the features he has read about in books. One night the first moon landing takes place and he is fascinated to th...
This is another picture book on the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. This one ranks as one of my favorites, for it is written from a 7 year old boy's perspective. His imagination is ignited by the space program. To read the historical event through his eyes is quite moving. And it helped ignite my son's imagination for all things space and rocketships.
Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away. As he read atlases and library books and kept clippings on astronauts orbiting the moon, he hoped and hoped that they would find a way to land there. And one extraordinary day they did, captured on his flickery TV, like giants bouncing in slow motion. When the boy fell asleep, he dreamed that he walked with them too. In this lyrical, transporting tale, Mark Haddon, the boy in the
This book made me think about what it would be like going on the moon and I know it would make students start imagining if they went to the moon as well. Let students imagine, but also use this as a teaching tool about the Apollo 11 moon landing. Though the book itself never states the exact same of the landing, it would be fun for students to investigate on their own about the landing. As the young boy in the book went downstairs three a.m. to watch this wonderful event in history, allow the st...
Footprints on the Moon is a historical fiction picture book. This book is about a boy who dreams of one day being an astronaut and walking on the moon. When Apollo 11 does land on the moon he is able to watch it on TV, later that night he dreams that he is walking on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. I think that this book would work very well to introduce a creative writing piece during the Earth and Space thematic unit. I would read this book and have students pay particular attent...
A sweet story about dreams of walking on the moon. This would probably be a great read aloud for ages 4 through 7 or so. It left me admiring the wonderful illustrations and longing for the time when Americans (at least those that I knew) were excited about space exploration. A very attractive book with a nice story, fabulous illustrations and no snarky humor. Perhaps a nod to simpler childhood times.
