Advantages: Wonderful rhymes and pictures make this a great asset for any budding spaceman Disadvantages: none
***Background***
Tony Mitton is best known to me for being the author of the fantastic, Spookyrumpus, but this book is part of a series about Amazing Machines and there are quite a few others in it to choose from.
Ant Parker illustrates the series.
***The Story***
"Wow!
Rockets have power. They rise and roar.
This rocket's waiting, ready to soar.
Rockets carry astronauts with cool, white suits,
oxygen helmets and gravity boots."
We then ... ...the rocket and we see a countdown before they blast off into space. We learn about the fuel tanks and how they drop off and find out about gravity and how you float about in space if you aren't strapped in.
The friends soon find themselves near the moon and launch the lunar lander before they take a walk on the moon. When the mission is over we see the explorers going back in the rocket for the long ride home.
"Rockets re-enter in a fiery flash
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belfin 04.06.2008
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