Blast Off
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An inspiring story about a young Black girl who wants to be an astronaut, written years before Black astronauts were sent into space. This remarkable picture book has been out of print for decades, until now.
First published in 1973, a year after the final Apollo mission, when American astronauts were exclusively white and male, Blast Off is the story of a young African American girl with a vision and a mission.
Regina Williams wants to be an astronaut. One day she’s drawing a picture of a rocket ship on the sidewalk when her friends come by and start to tease her. “You’ll never be an astronaut,” they say.
In reply, she builds her own spaceship with old boxes, pipes, and cans. Before long she’s in space, her eyes wide with wonder at the smallness of the blue-green Earth, the blackness of space, the stars and satellites. When she comes back down to earth, her friends don’t believe her, but she knows her dream is real.
An inspiring story of interstellar space travel with illustrations by the legendary Diane and Leo Dillon.
Blast Off
By Linda C. Cain, Susan Rosenbaum
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First published in 1973, a year after the final Apollo mission, when American astronauts were exclusively white and male, Blast Off is the story of a young African American girl with a vision and a mission.
Regina Williams wants to be an astronaut. One day she’s drawing a picture of a rocket ship on the sidewalk when her friends come by and start to tease her. “You’ll never be an astronaut,” they say.
In reply, she builds her own spaceship with old boxes, pipes, and cans. Before long she’s in space, her eyes wide with wonder at the smallness of the blue-green Earth, the blackness of space, the stars and satellites. When she comes back down to earth, her friends don’t believe her, but she knows her dream is real.
An inspiring story of interstellar space travel with illustrations by the legendary Diane and Leo Dillon.
ISBN
9781681375687
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Pages
32 pages
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Published
Sep 21, 2021
Language
en
Cover type
Hardcover
Book details
- Authors
- Linda C. Cain, Susan Rosenbaum
- ISBN
- 9781681375687
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Sep 21, 2021
- Publication year
- 2021
- Pages
- 32
- Dimensions
- 7.75 in × 0.39 in × 9.33 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Juvenile FictionImagination & PlayTechnologyAstronauts & SpacePeople & PlacesUnited StatesAfrican American & Black