{"id":378,"date":"2019-04-29T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=378"},"modified":"2019-04-27T08:59:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:59:26","slug":"to-the-moon-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/to-the-moon-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Moon and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8762\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moonandback_fc-595x587.jpg?resize=525%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2UZGzNk\">To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure<\/a><br \/>\nby Buzz Aldrin (Author), Marianne Dyson (Author), and Bruce Foster (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Follow astronaut Buzz Aldrin as he encounters the &#8220;magnificent desolation&#8221; of Earth&#8217;s only satellite firsthand in this pop-up book. Then build an Apollo 11 lunar module with the pieces inside the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moonandback_in1-595x447.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8764\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/moonandback_in2-595x447.jpg?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Moon and Back: My Apollo 11 Adventure by Buzz Aldrin (Author), Marianne Dyson (Author), and Bruce Foster (Illustrator) Booktalk: Follow astronaut Buzz Aldrin as he encounters the &#8220;magnificent desolation&#8221; of Earth&#8217;s only satellite firsthand in this pop-up book. Then build an Apollo 11 lunar module with the pieces inside the book. Snippet: It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/to-the-moon-and-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To the Moon and Back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-66","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1238,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/man-on-the-moon-read-aloud\/","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":0},"title":"Man on the Moon read aloud","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"January 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Man on the Moon by Anastasia Suen (Author) and Benrei Huang (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound | WorldCat Booktalk: It was 1969 and no one had ever set foot on the moon. 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