Encouraging.

THis book is a great idea, but not a great rendition. I did not love either the text nor the illustrations. Do not recommend this one.

Lovely!

Haddon, Mark Footprints on the Moon pgs. 32 Candlewick Language~G, Sexual Content~G; Violence~G

“Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away.”—excerpt from front flap hardcover edition

In his eloquent prose, Mark Haddon (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) recalls how as a young boy he longingly gazed at the moon and dreamed of one day becoming an astronaut. Then on July 20,1969 man took a monumental step into history. The beautiful illustrations by Christian Birmingham make the picture book memoir’s ambiance complete.

ELM–ESSENTIALtt Allison Madsen~Teen Librarian-SJO Public Library

I have had a fascination with space for nearly 30 years so when I saw this book in the catalog I just had to buy it. I enjoyed Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time when I read it over 6 years ago. I just loved the dreamy soft illustrations.

Footprints on the Moon is a historical fiction picture book. This book is about a boy who dreams of one day being an astronaut and walking on the moon. When Apollo 11 does land on the moon he is able to watch it on TV, later that night he dreams that he is walking on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. I think that this book would work very well to introduce a creative writing piece during the Earth and Space thematic unit. I would read this book and have students pay particular attention to the section where the boy is dreaming. I would instruct the students to write their own story about landing on the moon or another planet.

This is a children's book, and yeah I may be an adult (or meant to be)

But it was enjoyable


And the art, the art style and illustrations are lovely.

At least it was very short (20 min listening) but throughout the entire audiobook, there is eerie “space” music playing. Very annoying.

Weird, ethereal and eerie little short story that is quite good. Would liked it to have been longer but good nevertheless.

A man remembers his boyhood fascination with the moon and the night mankind first bounced through the dust in the Sea of Tranquillity.

Captures the beauty of the moon, its hold on the imagination of the child, the impact of the moon landings and the fact that our childhood loves can last into adulthood. Also, so much work that can be done on varying sentence type, punctuation, precise use and choice of adjectives and adverbs.

A child's dreams of walking on the moon like Aldrin and Armstrong come to nothing, probably because the child is British and also because NASA doesn't do that sort of thing any more (if it ever did, of course). He could approach that Beagle bloke with the sideburns from the Open University I suppose, but realistically he's better off just staring out of his window lamenting.