This Rocket
by Paul Collicutt
My son is bigtime into outer space, whereas I am merely an aging space cadet. So while his room is chock-a-block with stars and spaceships and astronaut-related stuff, I merely gaze off into the cosmos. At least we both keep busy, even if only one of us is moving.
This book's on his recent list of must-reads, since it's so obviously on-topic, but I found it short on details, and it skips around chronologically.
The Flash Gordon feel to the graphics is what makes this book soar. We whiz through rocketing history from the Soviet space chimp through the international space station. The highlight is, of course, the Apollo 11 countdown, blasting vertically across the final pages.
"This rocket" repeats on every page, paired with opposites: big rockets and small, zooming up and splashing down, etc. The repetition does wonders for wee minds, of course, and it's clearly geared toward the gizmo-obsessed, as are the rest of the books in Collicutt's transportation series: "This Truck" and "This Train" to name but two.
Rating: *\*\
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