The Race to Space: From Sputnik to the Moon Landing and Beyond...

author: Clive Gifford
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.67
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2019/09/19
date added: 2019/09/19
shelves: non-fiction, childrens
review:
‘The Race to Space: From Sputnik to the Moon Landing and Beyond’ by Clive Gifford with illustrations by Ian Murray is mostly about the space race of the 1950s and 1960s, but it tells it from different perspectives.

The story of the space race is one of the Soviet Union pitted against America. This book takes a child’s perspective and tells the story in bite-sized chunks with some really nice illustrations. Told from the US and USSR perspectives through a mostly chronological perspective, the reader sees the development of space travel as well as the terrible cost that it can have. When man finally gets the moon, the book starts to wind down and shows how these two rivals assisted each other with joint missions, including building a space station.

I liked the retro design of the illustrations in the book. I also liked the flags being used to denote which country we were reading about. There is obviously a lot more that could be written and I feel the book does a pretty good job of distilling the facts into a timeline for younger readers.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Quarto - words & pictures, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.



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