Book Post #40- Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed the Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh

Sibert Award Winner 2007

Thimmesh, C. (2006). Team Moon: how 400,00 people landed Apollo 11 on the moon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co..

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh is a wonderful book that tells the story of how we came to land on the moon.  From the challenge by President Kennedy to have man landing on the moon before the decade was over to the seamstress that sewed the space suits to the engineers that developed the heat shields- it was a group effort!  There were many worries and concerns throughout the process, but there was success in the end.  The author uses transcripts and quotes from archives along with pictures to help tell the story.  This book could be used when studying about the moon in science or when studying about the 1960's in social studies.