Apollo 11--40th Anniversary!

July 2009 marks the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history. Launched on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 was manned by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon while Mike Collins orbited above.

The Children's Room has a number of new books about this historic event that may inspire a new generation of readers and future explorers:

Moonshot: the flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca (on the new Cochecho Readers' list)

Mission Control, this is Apollo: the story of the first voyages to the Moon by Andrew Chaikin

Team moon: how 400,000 people landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Themmes

Eyewitness Books: Moon by Jacqueline Mitton

and from one of the astronauts--

Look to the Stars written by Buzz Aldrin and illustrated by Wendell Minor (the team that created the New York Times bestseller, Reaching for the Moon).