The Moon Over Star - Rilegato

Aston, Dianna Hutts

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0803731078 ISBN 13: 9780803731073

Casa editrice: Dial Books, 2008

Riassunto

Watching the 1969 moon landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on television, a young girl is inspired by their incredible achievement and quickly realizes that there is no such thing as dreaming too big when it comes to achieving personal goals. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Dianna Hutts Aston is the author of Mama's Wild Child / Papa's Wild Child, When You Were Born (Candlewick), and An Egg is Quiet (Chronicle). She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Jerry Pinkney is one of America's most admired children's book illustrators. He has won the Caldecott Medal and five Caldecott Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, five New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Awards, the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the Society of Illustrators' Original Art Show Lifetime Achievement Award, and many other prizes and honors. Recently a member of the National Council of the Arts and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also served on the U.S. Postal Service Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee. His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Jerry Pinkney lives with his wife, author Gloria Jean Pinkney, in Westchester County, New York.

Product Description:

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Subject: Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile fiction. Space flight to the moon -- Juvenile fiction. Farm life -- Juvenile fiction. Summary: From the Publisher: In July 1969, the world witnessed an awe-inspiring historical achievement when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. For the young protagonist of this lyrical and hopeful picture book, that landing is something that inspires her to make one giant step toward all of the possibilities that life has to offer. Caldecott Honor-winning painter Jerry Pinkney and the poetic Dianna Hutts Aston create a moving tribute to the historic Apollo 11 Mission, just in time to commemorate its upcoming fortieth anniversary.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dial Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0803731078
• ISBN 13: 9780803731073
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 32
• Disegnatore: Pinkney Jerry