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Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon. They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust quickly to reduced gravity on the Moon, and a very short exploration time to obtain samples before their launch window :) It is not really a "pure" pop-up book but rather has some pop-ups and various flaps and tabs you can pull (for action.) de Brunhoff, Laurent. Babar's Moon Trip. New York: Random House. (18 p.) 1968.
A charming pop-up book about a trip to the moon. Like other pop-up books it is hard to share how wonderful it is to see the rocket rise up or how the surface of the Moon is 3-d. It is a reprint and was was originally Czechoslovakian but I don't know much more about the original book. Kubasta, V. Tip & Top and The Moon Rocket. London: Bancroft and Co. (7 p.) 1964.
To continue my obscure "space fiction" I have Jimmy and the Spaceship to share with you. This was a very small "pocket book" of a comic strip. There were other "Jimmy and the...." books but I really enjoyed reading this one. It reads like the typical space story but has its own "shock" ending. I hope you like this obscure bit of early fiction about a trip to the moon. Main, Neville. Jimmy and The Spaceship. London: Brockhampton Press. (30 p.) 1949.
Happy Moon Day! This is the last of this batch of My Weekly Readers. I hope you haven't gotten too tired of this summer break. In this issue we celebrate the USA in Space. This March 12th issue celebrates John Glenn's success and looking forward to the next set of missions getting ready for a visit to The Moon. This issue also celebrates the creation of the Everglades National Park in 1934 and its success in saving bald eagles.
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Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
Babar's Moon Trip was a pop-up book I had never come across before. It seems influenced a little by the space race and the American efforts to get to the Moon. They face problems like: not achieving escape velocity for the Moon, failure of stage separation, failure to adjust quickly to reduced gravity on the Moon, and a very short exploration time to obtain samples before their launch window :) It is not really a "pure" pop-up book but rather has some pop-ups and various flaps and tabs you can pull (for action.) de Brunhoff, Laurent. Babar's Moon Trip. New York: Random House. (18 p.) 1968.
In 53 BCE, one of the most powerful Romans of the time led his army eastward, hoping to achieve the kind of glory and legacy that Julius Caesar had earned on the battlefield. Instead, Marcus Licinius Crassus walked straight into a trap and became remembered for one of the greatest military defeats in Roman […]
