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To the Moon and Back

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To the Moon and Back

By Jackie French About

When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. No, not at Parkes, but from Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT. This is their story, told by Bryan Sullivan, one of the technicians on duty at the time and his wife, children’s author Jackie French. This book also includes information about the space program and the birth of the internet. Ages 10+

AuthorJackie French About
Type Of BookAustralian Information
FormatPaperback
ISBN9780207200090
Published25/03/2004
Lists And AwardsCBC Eve Pownall Award Information Books, CBC Shortlisted Title, Notable Australian Book, Premier's Reading Challenge 7-8 (NSW)
Price Per CopyRRP $22.99
1–9 copies$20.69
10–19 copies$19.54
20+ copies$18.39
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Jackie French

Jackie French is a full-time writer who lives in rural NSW. She writes columns in the print media, and sometimes presents on radio and on Burke’s Backyard. Her books for children include Rain Stones, shortlisted for the CBC Children’s Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers, 1991; Walking the Boundaries, a Notable Book in the CBC Awards, 1994; and Somewhere Around the Corner, an Honour Book in the CBC Awards, 1995. In 2000, Hitler’s Daughter won the CBC Younger Readers Award and the WOW! Award in the UK in 2001. How to Guzzle Your Garden was also shortlisted for the 2000 CBC Eve Pownall Award for Information. Most recently, Jackie won the 2002 ACT Book of the Year Award for In the Blood; her successful picture book Diary of a Wombat was named an Honour book in the 2003 CBC Awards and also won the 2003 Nielsen Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award.

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