The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins

The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins written and illustrated by Bea Uusma Schyffert, published by Chronicle Books

Bottom: jacket from The Man Who Went to the Arr Side of the Moon.

If it’s possible to make reading a book as exciting as, well, a trip to the moon, Schyffert has done it. By combining pulse- pounding graphic design with the intensity of present-tense narration, she puts readers in the Columbia spacecraft on its mission to the moon. Kids will feel both the thrill and the loneliness of space as they circle the moon fourteen times with Michael Collins while Neil Armstrong takes his famous step. The naked enthusiasm of the text and the quietly, poetically, and palpably awed words of Collins himself firmly ground in human emotion an adventure that is literally out of this world. v.s.

Copyright Horn Book, Incorporated Jan/Feb 2005