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One Giant Leap
By Burleigh, Robert & Wimmer, Mike
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2009
Gr 1-3 Distinguished language and compelling imagery make this commemoration of the first Moon landing's 40th anniversary particularly intense. In characteristically dramatic free verse, Burleigh begins with the descent of the "Eagle" and the tense search for a safe spot to land. He describes the two astronauts' first impressions of the "endless, mysterious wasteland" all around, follows Armstrong and Aldrin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
This picture book collaboration successfully captures the tension, excitement, and national pride as Armstrong and Aldrin descend...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on May 1, 2009
Neil Armstrong’s first words on the moon will be familiar to many children, but the details recounted in One Giant Leap bring the famous event to life. Robert Burleigh’s writing takes readers along on this journey to a “billion-year-old landscape” that’s “cracked and scarred, / Its surface gouged and cratered and pitted with tiny holes, / Like a battlefield from some ancient war.” We learn of the carefully timed flight maneuvers, of the anxio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
