My Weekly Reader Nov 16, 1959

Nov 16, 1959

My Weekly Reader Oct 12, 1959

 

Oct 12, 1959

Another My Weekly Reader today. How is your 2026 going for you? This issue talks about the development of the Mercury capsule and the Russians sending a rocket to impact on the Moon.

Finally a quiz about what you (and the child) read.

My Weekly Reader 1958-1959

                                                        March 3, 1958
 

Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader Summer Cruise. This was for older children.

June 8, 1959

The article is not about imaginary flying saucers but rather how the military is developing their own. Hope you enjoyed some bits of what children saw while they were in school.

Space Witch (1959)

 

Here is a Halloween space book post for you. I have done posts for Christmas, Easter and Yuri's Night but never one for Halloween.

Space Witch is a pleasant story about a witch who wants to expand her frightening to creatures on other planets. She constructs a "space broom" and a space suit and goes looking for fun and scares. Her big breakthrough was using jet-black magic for fuel. A solution Von Braun had rejected in the early 50s :) 

Freeman, Don. Space Witch. New York: Puffin Books. (48 p.) 1959

Moon Base (1959)

 

Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base".

Nephew, William and Chester, Michael. Illustrated by Buehr, Walter. Moon Base. New York : GP Putnam's Sons. (72 p.) 23 cm.

And what a moon base it is. Building on the 1st book this one discusses a permanent settlement on the Moon. Many illustrations of rockets, Moon vehicles, and Moon base.