The First Travel Guide to the Moon: What to Pack, How to Go, and What to See When You Get There

by Rhoda Blumberg

A detailed travel guide outlining travel arrangements, moon history, places of interest, and other pertinent information for lunar visitors.

Genres: Fiction

83 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 1984

About the author

Rhoda Blumberg has written about the opening of Japan (1853-1854) in Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, a Newbery Honor Book, which also won the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and the Golden Kite Award. Her acclaimed histories also include The Incredible Journey of Lewis & Clark, The Great American Gold Rush, and The Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook, all ALA Notable Books. She is the winner of the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to nonfiction.

Rhoda Blumberg says that while doing research for Commodore Perry, "I read about the ordeals and strange adventures of Manjiro, then spent years replaying his life story in my mind until I felt impelled to write about him."

The author and her husband, Gerald, live in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Reviews

[Veronica · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the few books I have from when I was a kid. I would read this book over and over. It's a simple book about one day (I think sometime around 2000) of taking a vacation on the moon. My lil astronaut-aspiring-nerd brain sucked it all up. I'm still waiting to take that vacation!

[Annelise · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was hilarious, and even scientifically and historically accurate! Published in 1980 and set in the early 2000s, the author predicts that the first commercial space flights began in 1995 and the moon is now a tourist destination.

[TrumanCoyote · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very cute idea...nicely done (right down to the myriad clever names and details). :) Oh yeah, and that personal computer/phone gadget was a pretty damn good guess for 1980...

[Jessica Welch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book so many times in elementary school I could walk you to it on the shelves. I loved it then and loved it now.

[J.M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a personal favorite of mine from my childhood. I bought a copy off Amazon and can't wait to reread it.

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my all time favorite books from childhood! I still love it and read it to my daughter when she was in elementary school. I definitely plan on reading this book with my students!