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Go for the Moon: A Rocket, a Boy, and the First Moon Landing by Chris Gall (review)

The young narrator of this picture book on the Apollo 11 mission has been perfecting his model rockets and planning his 1969 launch in tandem with NASA’s plans. He watches experts on TV explain technicalities in the lead up to launch, and he and his brother test their own backyard rocket. As he hangs out in his own cardboard command and landing modules, he explicates how things are going to work out there in space. Here the bulk of the text and the bulk of its interest shift to kid-friendly technical text and clearly detailed renderings with cross sections and exploded views of the Saturn V rocket and the modules it will propel toward the moon (“When a stage runs out of propellant, it will be left behind, making the Saturn V lighter. A lighter rocket needs less propellant and can fly farther with its payload, which is the astronauts, their spacecraft, and their Moon lander”). Primaryand middle-graders who come for the skinny on the mission may find that the boxed inserts following the narrator’s mini-mission weigh down this enterprise, but once past the fictional framing introduction, they can be disregarded with no real loss to content. A closing author’s note suggests that this was young Gall’s own experience of the moon launch, and his enthusiasm for rocketry shines brightly in loving attention to hardware detail in the art, with human participants rendered as merely necessary adjuncts. He manages to capture a bit of the Moon mania of 1969 and expand enthusiasm to a new audience in appended fun facts. EB