Operation Moon is an early SRA (Science Research Associates) school reading pamphlet from the 1st year of the program in 1955. (For more about SRA read here). It covers the basics of spaceflight and then explains how we might voyage to the Moon in the future.
Burnett, R. Operation Moon: Facts We’ll Need to Know When We Travel to Other
Worlds. Chicago: Science
Research Associates. (48 p.) 1955.
Part of a series of French children's books (Cadet-rama), L'espace focused on astronomy and spaceflight. I really like the illustration style, a simple and modern approach.
Grée, Alain. Illustrated by Alain Grée. L'espace, Éditions Casterman. 29 p. 28 cm, 1972.
Wait for Us Stars is a book of Russian space art. Probably not a children's book but still a beautiful picture book. There is so much in here that I will only share a little, maybe I will do a part 2 another time. It contains primarily the art of Alexi Leonov and Andrei Sokolov.
Wait For Us Stars. 25 x 26 cm. 106 p. 1967.
This book is not about spaceflight but has a lot of nice space-age illustrations. It is a book of paper airplane models but as you see I don't know if it came with a kit or these were ideas to build. I am a fan of Thunderbirds (Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, 1964), and this has that same futuristic feel to the building and aircraft. The title roughly translates to "a person with highflying (and idealistic) plans."
