Age
4-7
Grade
PK-3
Don Brown
One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong
Paperback
(HMH Books for Young Readers Sept. 24, 2001)
, 1st edition
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
- ISBN
- 0618152393 / 9780618152391
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 5.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 0.1 in.
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