Download a curriculum guide (PDF) from Simon & Schuster,  here.

 

MOONSHOT NOTES, about details in the drawings, is here. (Not yet updated for the expanded edition, but I'll get to it, really!)

 

An account of a chance meeting with Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins on the Airtrain at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport (recounted on Twitter, back when it was Twitter, RIP) is here.

 

A wide-ranging collection of articles and interactive experiences about the Apollo program, compiled for the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, is available from The New York Times here.

 

Visit the incredible, immersive, interactive website Apollo in Real Time. The site is worth a dive any day of the year, but there is something especially wonderful about listening along in real time July 16 - 24, the  actual dates of the flight.

 

On imagery of the moon and Apollo, an exhibition, "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

On imagery of the moon and Apollo, "How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth," an interactive essay by Jason Farago in the New York Times.

 

Shannon Stirone writes about awe and Apollo in her article "The 'Small Self' Effect" for The Atlantic.

 

Read more about the Apollo program on the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's web site, here.

 

Watch a five-minute tour of the moon from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on YouTube, here, featuring footage from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

 

From Professor Myra Zarnowski and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing (PDF): Launching Nonfiction Author Studies: A focus for teaching the Common Core State Standards with books by Brian Floca — including Moonshot, Lightship, and Locomotive. (The full Launching Nonfiction Author Studies guide, featuring a dozen S&S nonfiction authors, is here.)

 

Read about Moonshot and Common Core State Standards in Marc Aronson and Susan M. Bartle’s School Library Journal article, “Wondering how to put Common Core into practice? It’s easier than you think.”

 

"Kids' books: Author, illustrator Brian Floca's career has him over the moon," by Karen MacPherson, Scripps Howard News Service, February 26, 2010.

 

Audio: A brief introduction to Moonshot at teachingbooks.net.

 

If you have an iOS device, check out the app Moon Globe, a way to see (and spin) the moon, from different angles, distances, and in different lighting. A free version and a slightly higher resolution, 99¢ version are available. Even better, step outside with a pair of binoculars. You'll be amazed what even a modest pair will do to that disc in the sky. It's a real place.

 

Dated and low-resolution YouTube trailers for the book are here and here. Read blog posts about Moonshot here.

 

For a high resolution JPEG of the book's cover, click here.