Several new picture books have been published to commemorate this occasion, so I put together a large display of books in my library to share the occasion with today's students and their parents. They have been very slow to move out of the library and I am hoping that once they have been exposed to more of it on the television and internet, that they will come back after the school holidays and be more enthusiastic about borrowing them. In the past the young students I teach have been very interested in space, but not so much anymore.
Among the new books are
• Moonwalkers by Mark Greenwood and Terry Denton
• Touch the Moon by Phil Cummings and Coral Tulloch
• When We Walked on the Moon by David Long and Sam Kalda
• Moon! Earth's Best Friend by Stacy McAnulty
• Moonshot by Brian Floca (an expanded and reissued version of a book published ten years ago)
• Moon's First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship by Susannah Leonard Hill and Elisa Paganelli
• Go For the Moon: A Rocket, a Boy and the First Moon Landing by Chris Gall
• The Usborne Book of the Moon by Laura Cowan and Diana Toledana
And if you don't have access to these new books perhaps revisit some of the gems from the past like
• The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon and Christian Birmingham
• One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh and Mark Wimmer
• If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty and Steven Kellogg
• Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon by Timothy R. Gaffney and Barry Root
• Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon by Torben Kuhlmann
Like you I remember the room, the small television, the distant screen and the way a teacher must have said this was important. He/she must have said we should remember this and pay attention. I also remember all the wonderful 'stuff' in the newspapers especially for children. Perhaps there will be things like this published over the coming days. We are nearly up to a full moon right now in the night sky so it's surely time to look up and wonder at this amazing event.Perhaps parents could include a reading of Happy Birthday Moon or Mooncake by Frank Asch as a part of their celebration.
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