After a Thanksgiving break I am back with Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Even if there are not a lot of illustrations of space flight this book was very important to me at the time. I remember finding it in the school library and then getting my own paperback copy through the Scholastic Book Club. It was retitled: Rocket Genius. It is a basic biography of one of the early American rocket pioneers. He essentially developed the first American liquid fueled rockets. While his worked was not embraced at the time it ended up being important in World War 2. So it made sense to introduce Space Age children to one of the earliest rocket scientists.
Verral, Charles Spain. Illustrated by Frame, Paul. Robert Goddard: Father of the Space Age. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (80 p.) 1963.
Here are a few illustrations from the book: