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by Buzz Aldrin (Author) "The name my parents gave me was Edwin Eugene, but the name my sister gave me was the one that would stay with me all..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 40 pages
  • Publisher: Collins; Reprint edition (1 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060554479
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060554477
  • Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.1 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,450 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Entertaining and informative. Excellent, realistic paintings." -- School Library Journal (starred review)

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An Apollo 11 astronaut takes readers on his journey that began in his childhood and led him to achieve his dream of walking on the moon, bringing to life an unparalleled moment in history for a new generation and showing how everyone can strive to achieve their dreams. Reprint.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Book for Younger Kids, 13 Feb 2006
By Tim (Retford, Notts United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Reaching for the Moon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards)) (Hardcover)
This is an 'inspirational' book intended for younger kids, ages 4-9, written in a very basic style telling the story about how Buzz Aldrin got his name, 'Buzz' and how he got to go to the Moon. In its brief 40 pages, many with hand-drawn/painted illustrations, it gives an overview of his life and thoughts.

On the down side, there are no actual mission photographs. On the upside, I have a copy signed by Buzz himself, when he visited the UKs National Space Musem in June 2005, when I was privileged to meet a real-life walking legend!

A great bedtime book for little ones, or school infants reading.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes you are remembered for being second, 16 Dec 2005
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This review is from: Reaching for the Moon (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards)) (Hardcover)
Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. was the second man to walk on the moon when he followed Neil Armstrong on July 16, 1969, while Michael Collins circled the moon in the Apollo 11 spacecraft. In "Reaching for the Moon," Aldrin tells the story of his life that led up to walking on the moon, taking key episodes from his life and presenting them as life lessons to his young readers, such as sinking in a lake because he would not let go of a bucket of rocks he had collected ("I knew that if something was important to you, you had to hold on"). Aldrin also shows how various things in his life foreshadowed what he would do on the moon (e.g., his mother's maiden name was Moon and his first airplane flight was in a small plane painted to look like an eagle).

The book follows Aldrin from his childhood and playing sports in school to graduating from West Point and joining the Air Force. After flying combat missions in the Korean War, Aldrin applied to the astronaut program and was not accepted until the second time he tried. The number two also comes up when Aldrin's first space flight was a Gemini mission. The description of the Apollo 11 mission is quite straightforward and Aldrin emphasizes the importance of what they were doing without every talking about how it came to be that he was the second man on the moon instead of the first (the reasoning was actually quite simple: Armstrong was a civilian, Aldrin was still in the military, and the U.S. government did not want a soldier to be the first person on the moon). Everybody remembers Armstrong's first words on the moon, but Aldrin recalls his own apt description of the moon as "Magnificent desolation."

Aldrin's narrative ends with the plaque that he and Armstrong left on the moon and ends with a message promoting space exploration to his readers. Aldrin does not touch on the depression and alcoholism he had to contend with after leaving NASA and which he detailed in his autobiography "Return to Earth." But you cannot fault Aldrin for his choice of perspective in this book. In his dedication Aldrin calls the original astronauts explorers of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions to be the first generation of space explorers. The second generation would be those flying shuttle missions to the space station, while the third generation of future space explorers would be the young students who read this book. The paintings in "Reaching for the Moon" are by Wendell Minor, and older readers will note that in the two-page painting of the George Washington Bridge below the bridge on the New York City side is the little red lighthouse of children's book fame.

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