10 Picture Books About The Moon Landing In Honor Of The 50th Anniversary

This is a board book perfect for toddlers and very young kids. It will take a beating, and survive its inevitable popularity. Because there's no better way to learn about the lunar landing than by chewing on it? Either way, the paper-cut artwork is bold and dynamic, and the facts are easily digestible for little minds.

A pop-up book about the lunar landing written by the astronaut who was a part of it. Experience his first-hand account of what he called the "magnificent desolation" of the surface of the moon in spectacular paper folds and pop-ups.

This adorable picture book features a child narrator telling the reader all about the preparations that happened in the lead up to the lunar landing in 1969. Because it's told in a child's voice, this book is uniquely approachable for children, encouraging them to ask questions and interact with the story.

I love this book idea for older kids. This is a picture book to inspire children to write their own picture books, providing prompts for each story. This is such an amazing idea for an activity during the summer when kids tend to lose some of the skills they worked so hard to gain over the course of the school year.

I love this book because it highlights how the everyday NASA worker on the project was responsible for the successful launch and landing, from the seamstresses to the custodians who clean the bays. Everyday heroes doing their job, getting it done.

Little Golden Books are 100 percent classic. This is a sweet version of the lunar landing story with quaint illustrations and an easily affordable price point.

I am more than a little in love with this book that uses diagrams in conjunction with traditional picture book storytelling. This book will develop the hearts and minds of future science and space nerds, and for that reason alone it's worth the purchase. The illustrations are whimsical and fun, and it reads almost like poetry.

This is the illustrated story of Margaret Hamilton, one of the women who hand-wrote codes to help NASA get the men on the moon. Without her codes, Apollos 9, 10, and 11 wouldn't have happened. The astronauts were all men, but many of the best mathematicians were women.

This is the coolest graphic novel for kids I've seen in a long time. It's bold and dynamic. The combination of black and white and color art, along with the rapid fire pace of the retelling of Apollo 11, is something to be seen.

This is a story for young readers. It anthropomorphizes the moon, making her a character in the tale of the lunar landing. It's remarkably sweet, and kids ages 2 to 5 will love it.