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Reaching for the moon / Buzz Aldrin ; paintings by Wendell Minor.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection TL789.85.A4 A3 2005 Cook copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aldrin, Buzz.
- Series:
- Outstanding science trade books for students K-12 (awards)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aldrin, Buzz--Juvenile literature.
- Aldrin, Buzz.
- Project Apollo (U.S.)--Juvenile literature.
- Project Apollo (U.S.).
- Astronauts--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Astronauts.
- Space flight to the Moon--Juvenile literature.
- Space flight to the Moon.
- Space flight to the moon.
- United States.
- Aldin, Buzz (autograph) (Kislak Cook Children's Book Collection).
- Minor, Wendell (autograph) (Kislak Cook Children's Book Collection).
- Local Subjects:
- Aldin, Buzz (autograph) (Kislak Cook Children's Book Collection).
- Minor, Wendell (autograph) (Kislak Cook Children's Book Collection).
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Autobiographies.
- Picture books for children -- Juvenile literature.
- Biography.
- Picture books.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cook, Lucy (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Cook, Richard (donor) (Cook Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [40] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition
- Other Title:
- Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
- Summary:
- I Walked on the Moon. This is my journey. It didn't begin when I stepped on board Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. It began the day I was born -- Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr., whom everyone called Buzz. Becoming an astronaut took more than education, discipline, and physical strength. It took years of determination and believing that any goal is possible -- from riding a bike alone across the George Washington Bridge at age ten to making a footprint on the Moon. I always knew the Moon was within my reach -- and that I was ready to be part of the team that would achieve the first landing. But it was still hard to believe when I took my first step onto the Moon's surface. We all have our own dreams -- this is the story of how mine came true.
- Notes:
- Typography by Wendell Minor and Al Cetta.
- Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children (2006).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Lucy and Richard Cook Children's Book Collection presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Cook Collection copy has autographs of Buzz Aldrin and Wendell Minor.
- ISBN:
- 0060554452 :
- 9780060554453
- 0060554460
- 9780060554460
- 9780060554477
- 0060554479
- 9781606860267
- 1606860267
- 9780329663377
- 0329663372
- OCLC:
- 54778496
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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