T-Minus: The Race to the Moon

This is a wonderful little book. Even though I knew how it came out, it was exciting. I learned some things about the Russian space program that I didn't know. The drawings of each individual rocket launch emphasizes how much was happening in a very short time. Especially how far behind the US was in the beginning. This is a dramatization rather than a straight history but the authors detail the few liberties they took in a text page near the end. If you were around in the 60's and you want to give your kids a sense of what it was like, this is a good summary.