The Usborne book of the Moon

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. 

For thousands of years, the Moon has been the one thing in the night sky that everyone anywhere on our planet recognises. Trace the story of the Moon around the world and through history, from ancient legends about its creation, to its first sighting through a telescope, right up until the Apollo 11 mission and the first Moon landing in 1969.