Launch Day

by Peter Campbell

Book Overview

Full-color illustrations and text written by a member of NASA's space art program help convey all of the excitement and anticipation surrounding the launching of a real-life space shuttle. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562946110
• ISBN13: 9781562946111
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Millbrook Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.3" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book; great for kids who love space "stuff"!

My almost-four-year-old loves all things space: Star Trek, space shuttles, Apollo 13, etc. I've tried to impress upon him that space isn't just "in the movies," but that someday, he, too, could be an astronaut...that people, have in fact, already "boldly gon where no one has gone before." This book proved an excellent vehicle for helping him understand that. While the language is too complicated for a four-year-old, he enjoys the meticulous paintings of the space shuttle's journey, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad, then to space and back. An added bonus: He had seen paintings of the space shuttle in the exhibit halls at Kennedy Space Center, and wanted to "take them home." With the paintings in this book...he can do just that.

The drawings are excellent and the story is interesting

I really liked this book because it gave a lot of detail about the actual launch of the space shuttle, but not in technical terms, so kids could understand it