Earthrise : Apollo 8 and the photo that changed the world

Resource Information

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Label

Earthrise : Apollo 8 and the photo that changed the world

Title remainder

Apollo 8 and the photo that changed the world

Statement of responsibility

written by James Gladstone ; illustrated by Christy Lundy

Title variation

Earth rise

Creator

• Gladstone, James, 1969-

Contributor

• Lundy, Christy,

Author

• Gladstone, James, 1969-

Illustrator

• Lundy, Christy,

Subject

• Earth (Planet) -- Photographs from space
• Earth (Planet) -- Photographs from space | Juvenile literature
• JUVENILE NONFICTION / Photography
• Photographs -- History -- 20th century
• Photographs -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Apollo 8 (Spacecraft)
• Apollo 8 (Spacecraft) -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Photographs from space
• Juvenile literature

Language

eng

Summary

"Earthrise tells the story of the first time the planet Earth was photographed in colour from space. The photo, later called Earthrise, was taken in 1968 by the astronauts on Apollo 8, the first US space mission to break free of Earth's orbit and circle the Moon. The Apollo 8 astronauts were surveying the lunar surface for places to land future missions. As they were charting the Moon, they happened to look up just as Earth, in a flash of color and life, was rising above the darkness of space and the dead rock of the Moon. The sight had a profound effect on the astronauts-and the photo they took had a similarly profound effect when it was published back on Earth in newspapers and magazines. By making clear that Earth was, and is, at heart, a world without borders, a home to all peoples, the photo's mind-bending shift in perspective is credited for galvanizing the fledgling environmental movement and sparking hope in a year of global unrest. And, to quote from the last page of the book, 'in a time when people still struggle to live together in peace, that picture of the rising Earth is as powerful now as it was in 1968'."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

j525.022/2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 590L
• Decoding demand: 87 (very high)
• Semantic demand: 95 (very high)
• Syntactic demand: 87 (very high)
• Structure demand: 88 (very high)

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

LG

LC call number

QB637

LC item number

.G54 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Reading level

3.5

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

juvenile