Horn Book Review
'Apollo, Gemini', and 'Mercury' cover the history of space travel from the pre-sputnik era to the moon landings. The accounts seem accurate, and the technical explanations, while brief, are correct. 'Space Stations' carries the program into the future, and 'Hubble' contains superb pictures. Bib., glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 2^-4. Four books in the True Book: Space series add to children's knowlege of space exploration. The Hubble Space Telescope deals with explorations of space considered unsafe for human travel and telescopes in general. Space travel from Icarus to Apollo 18 is covered in the three "Project" books, which allow children to read about the slow, painstaking process, with its successes and failures, that eventually sent humans to the lunar surface. The books can be read separately, but together they add up to an excellent overview of manned space travel. As always with books in the True Book series, the typeface is large and the photographs are clear, crisp, and plentiful. Each book has a glossary. --Susan Dove Lempke
