 In the mid 1950s, a dreamer/inventor mouse has his sights set on the moon. His mouse friends insist the moon is made of cheese, but he knows better. He experiments unsuccessfully with a catapult, a space capsule made from a clock, and a vessel with a firecracker attached to a roller skate. Eventually, he creates a space suit with an ink bottle helmet and constructs a multi-stage tin can craft that carries him into space and on to a lunar landing. He gathers a moon rock and plants a tiny flag. He returns and is acclaimed by his mouse peers. Precisely rendered, lavish illustrations in watercolor and pencil make the book a work of art. The book ends with a brief nonfiction history of space travel from Galileo’s observations about the moon to the July 1969 Apollo moon landing. Our hero gets encouragement from an elderly mouse at the Smithsonian, who is Charles Lindbergh from Kuhlmann’s companion book, Lindbergh: The Tale of A Flying Mouse. mjw |
| Title: Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey Of A Mouse To The Moon Author: Torben Kuhlmann Illustrator: Torben Kuhlmann Publisher: NorthSouth Books, Inc. New York Copyright: 2016 Original Language: German Translator: David Henry Wilson Original Title: Armstrong: Die Abenteueliche Reise einer Maus zum Mond Original Publisher: NordSud Verlag AG Original Copyright: 2016 ISBN: 978-0-7358-4262-5 Hardcover pages: 128 Age range: 4-12 Genre: Picture Book Book setting: New York, Washington DC Author’s ethnicity: German Author’s residence: Germany Illustrator’s ethnicity: German Illustrator’s residence: Germany Subjects: Armstrong, Neil: Mice; Moon; Space flight |
Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey Of A Mouse To The Moon
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