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I read a book a while back about a boy who was obsessed with the idea of going to Georgia to see rockets fly. He had model rockets of all sorts, and always watched rocket tv shows and such. It all took place during the Vietnam War and his father was digging a bomb shelter outside, and his father became obsessed with the project, but something terrible happened. A boy that I think ended up having a mental disability wanted the boy's toy rocket, and he went to get it and the boy fell in the ditch that was going to be used for the shelter and was speared on a cast-iron foundation bar.

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Write a customer review. Showing of 14 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Many of the titles are educational, running the gamut from the alphabet to the Solar System to specific individual planets.

The character, "Rocket Boy" is a photograph of a child wearing a simple uniform or costume of sorts, while his rocket and much of the background imagery is cartoonish. However, on several of the pages the background consists of actual NASA photography, which is always of amazing clarity. Some of the NASA imagery may, in fact, be computerized graphics, but it is not discernible to the human eye which is which.

I haven't read any of the other "Rocket Boy" stories, but they all seem to be educational in nature, and if they emulate this one, the quality will be good. This is a great book for imaginative little kids who want to explore outer space, and pretend they are astronauts. Barbara Mojica Top Contributor: The author targets this book for ages four through eight. Pictures are large and colorful; they will appeal to the younger child.

I do feel that an older child will expect more text even though some of the vocabulary words in the one line sentences are rather difficult. The book makes a delightful, quick bedtime story for children, particularly those interested in space.