The book of Bok / written by Neil Armstrong ; illustrated by Grahame Baker Smith.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Wren & Rook, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Whakaahuatanga: 40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781526362278
- 9781526362285
- Book of Bok : one moon rock's journey through time and space
- 813.6 23
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Original text by Neil Armstrong, 18 April 2006.
First man on the Moon Neil Armstrong reveals the adventure of the first Moon landing, and how the Earth and the Moon came to be. A young boy sits up in bed and gazes at the distant Moon through his window. He wonders if, one day, a human will stand on its surface and look back at the Earth. But Earth is already being studied from the Moon. An all-seeing Moon rock of almost impossible age, called Bok, has been looking down at our blue and green planet for millennia. Geologists, people who study rocks have a saying: 'Rocks remember'. During his time, Bok has witnessed some truly wondrous things. Created in the Earth-shattering collision 4.5 billion years ago that led to the formation of the Moon, he has seen stars burst into being and meteors streak through the solar system. He has seen his own Moon surface be transformed with craters, and he has watched a fiery, volcanic planet transform into the haven we know today, as mountain ranges rose up, oceans appeared and dinosaurs roamed the Earth. And he found himself rudely awoken one early lunar morning by a strange creature picking him up and throwing him into a box. That is how Bok and Neil Armstrong first met, and this is their story.
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