Christian Hill

1969 – Landing on the Moon

Historical

A crazy bet turned into reality.


20th July 1969: the most incredible of companies is crowned with complete success. With one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind, Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon for the first time, after a journey of three days and almost half a million kilometres, and eight intense years of preparations, obstacles, victories. Here are those exciting moments, from the feverish development of the mission, to the historic moon landing, to the dangerous return to Earth, narrated from the point of view of a protagonist: one of the three Apollo 11 astronauts.

  • How astronauts managed to travel to the moon, walk on its surface and return home safe and sound!

  • Published 50 years after the moon landing, the story of the greatest feat in human history.

  • The first-person account by an astronaut makes the mission even more engaging and authentic.
Publisher: Edizioni EL
Target: 8-10
Year: 2019
Author
Christian Hill

Christian Hill is an author and screenwriter. He has written many children’s stories including Il Ladro dei Ceili (The Sky Thief), Rizzoli, winner of the Cento Children’s Literature Prize in 2019, and Olga, una Storia di Pace in Tempo di Guerra (Olga, A Story of Peace in Wartime), Rizzoli, which entered the Italian IBBY Honour List in 2023. His works have been translated into several languages, some of which he can recognise and some of which he can’t. He loves music, role-playing games and his armchair.

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