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The Sea of Tranquility

mark haddon christian birmingham

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Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'. Years ago there was a little boy who dreamed of rocketing to the moon, of landing on the crumbly rock and walking across the Sea of Tranquility. He borrowed library books and read how astronauts had orbited the earth and walked in space. And every night he hoped that they would find a way to land on the moon and walk where he had dreamed of walking. And eventually, one cloudless night, they did!

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1996

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Format
32 pages, Paperback
Published
August 4, 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN
9780006645573
ASIN
0006645577
Language
English

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Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work.

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konoha16
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April 17,2025
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This is another picture book on the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. This one ranks as one of my favorites, for it is written from a 7 year old boy's perspective. His imagination is ignited by the space program. To read the historical event through his eyes is quite moving. And it helped ignite my son's imagination for all things space and rocketships.
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ShaneOmac27
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April 17,2025
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Mark Haddon's autobiographical picture book tells a story I suspect played across thousands of living rooms in America in 1969 as Armstrong and company landed on the moon. A young boy watches and is enchanted. And while Haddon may not have ended up with space as a career, his love of it comes through loud and clear.
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mew_shy_weeb
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April 17,2025
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A fictionalisation of the author's childhood dream to walk on the moon.

NASA's Constellation program may be planning to return people to the moon for the first time since 1972 - but somehow I doubt that in 40 years time someone will write a picture book about how it deeply affected their lives...

Oh - and I like the new cover much more than the original - I suspect its going to be a long, long, long time before children have the opportunity to walk on the moon!
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DMOTGK
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April 17,2025
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Christian Birmingham's illustrations wonderfully capture the wonder of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.
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pinnipedpal
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April 17,2025
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"Footprints on the moon" is a very fun and engaging story about a boy's recollection of the first moon landing. It describes how passionate the boy was about wanting someone to land on the moon and then shows how it was when they actually did land. It's illustrations are extremely engaging and allow the reader to emerge themselves in the fantasy.
Age Level:3-6
Reading Level: Beginning Reader
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Grace96
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April 17,2025
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Outstanding! A story about a boy who loved to see and think about the moon. I appreciate that there are some page spreads without words, just with images. Space is so cool! It is indeed cool to think about.
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April 17,2025
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Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away. As he read atlases and library books and kept clippings on astronauts orbiting the moon, he hoped and hoped that they would find a way to land there. And one extraordinary day they did, captured on his flickery TV, like giants bouncing in slow motion. When the boy fell asleep, he dreamed that he walked with them too. In this lyrical, transporting tale, Mark Haddon, the boy in the story, conveys the thrill of one moment in history through a child's eyes, aided by Christian Birmingham's evocative illustrations. www.hcpl.net
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list95
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April 17,2025
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Loved Hadden's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, although that book isn't for everyone. This story won't engage most young readers, but if they like astronauts and such, they might try The Darkest Dark and I'm sure there are others too if you ask any librarian.
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