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Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Bean, the fourth astronaut to walk on the lunar surface and the only artist to paint its beauty firsthand! Journey to the moon on the Apollo 12 mission with astronaut and artist Alan Bean!As a boy, Alan wanted to fly planes. As a young navy pilot, Alan wished he could paint the view from the cockpit. So he took an art class to learn patterns and forms. But no class could prepare him for the beauty of the lunar surface some 240,000 miles from Earth. In 1969, Alan became the fourth man and first artist on the moon. He took dozens of pictures, but none compared to what he saw through his artistic eyes. When he returned to Earth, he began to paint what he saw. Alan's paintings allowed humanity to experience what it truly felt like to walk on the moon. Journalist and storyteller Dean Robbins's tale of this extraordinary astronaut is masterful, and artist Sean Rubin's illustrations are whimsical and unexpected. With back matter that includes photos of the NASA mission, images of Alan's paintings, and a timeline of lunar space travel, this is one adventure readers won't want to miss!
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Dean Robbins writes nonfiction children's picture books about his heroes, including "Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass" (Scholastic) ; "Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote" (Knopf) ; "Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing" (Knopf) ; "The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean" (Scholastic) ; "Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Scientist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World" (Farrar Straus Giroux) , "The Fastest Girl on Earth!: Meet Kitty O'Neil, Daredevil Driver!" (Knopf) ; "Mambo Mucho Mambo!: The Dance That Crossed Color Lines" (Candlewick) ; and "You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg!" (Scholastic) . His award-winning books have been featured on Public Radio International and praised in The New York Times, USA Today, Smithsonian, and other publications, along with receiving starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. They've also been chosen for best-of-the-year honors by Smithsonian, Space.com, the Cooperative Children's Book Center, and the Children's Book Council, among others. "Two Friends" was adapted as a short film by Weston Wood Studios. As a journalist, Robbins has contributed to USA Today, The New York Daily News, Space.com, and dozens of other media outlets. He draws on his journalism experience to interview the subjects of his children's books, including Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean and NASA's pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton. Learn more at deanrobbins.net.
