In this new picture book, a little boy fantasizes travelling to the moon with his grandfather, a former astronaut who walked on the moon. When Grandfather visits, Grandson insists he tell him of his journey, and the boy creates of the telling his own trip, beginning with the launchpad in Florida. A basic amount of scientific observation is worked into the tale, and a cross-generational sweetness pervades it all. A good choice for introducing the ideas of space travel and other worlds to preschool and primary students and children. As a children's librarian I have read Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon to several classes, with positive results.

I was thrilled to buy this book, as it was John Glenn's flight back in 1962 that first got me interested in spaceflight history - an interest which endures to this day. I also flew all the way from Australia to attend the STS-95 launch, and consider it one of the greatest occasions of my life. This book is very well written, as it should have been with two professionals at the helm, and obviously a lot of background work was done on the text prior to the launch. It reads very well and easily, and the photo choice (although the reproduction of some is quite poor) is excellent. For such a well researched book, however, the authors should have paid a little more attention to what actually occurs in the final ten seconds of a shuttle launch, as they got that wrong and - hey guys! - the teacher who died in the Challenger explosion was Christa McAuliffe, not McCauliffe as you state on several occasions. But they are mild irritations in an otherwise worthwhile, and certainly timely, book.