Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon (Mouse Adventures)

My wife is a primary school teacher and her latest topic has been space. She has read this book virtually and the children love it and from there has sparked some amazing discussion. This book is also very well illustrated.

This is a stunning book. The images are sublime and they accompany a lovely text. We read this over a series of nights to our four year old. He very much enjoyed the illustrations.

Brilliant book .Love itBeing a child of the space race, I wasn’t sure what this was going to be like .Very pleased

This is a beautiful book. Made to treasure.

Good quality and the book.

Extremely well illustrated!

O.K., I was a big fan of Kuhlmann's "Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse", and I thought the drawings in "Moletown" were just gorgeous. But, when I saw this "...Journey of a Mouse to the Moon" I wasn't at all sure we needed another heroic-mouse-in-the-air book. Well, excuuuuse me for being such a sourpuss. This is a clever, inventive and deeply engaging adventure story.Again, we have a dreamer/inventer mouse, but now his head and heart are aimed at the Moon. The other mice think he is a fool, but he is undeterred. MILD SPOILER. He receives a mysterious letter of encouragement and travels to the Smithsonian to meet his anonymous patron. Clues in the drawings, but nothing explicit, make it clear that this elderly mouse is the hero aviator from Kuhlmann's earlier "Lindbergh..." book. What a nice touch.Anyway, our hero has to make a spacesuit, build a vehicle, plan his mission, and so on. At each step Kuhlmann combines whimsy and realism to tell a story that feels like it could be true. And maybe that's the special ingredient in all of Kuhlmann's books - they are fantasy, but the narrative and the drawings make the stories feel so real. This makes it so much easier and so much more fun for the little reader who's following each step of the slowly building adventure. And of course the depth, detail and richness of the full page drawings just draw the reader in.I guess you could call this a "picture book", but that's like saying "Moby Dick" is a fishing guide. These books are works of art, and I remain amazed that beyond that they are also ripping adventures. I don't know where the next brave mouse in the next book is going to go, but I'll be happy to find out.(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

To call this a 'picture book' would be doing it an injustice. The full-page illustrations throughout the 128-pages of the book are simply gorgeous, so incredibly detailed and immersed my 6-year old son for hours.The story focuses around a little mouse who is fascinated by the moon. He tries to educate his fellow mice about astronomy, but they only want to believe that the moon is made of cheese - so the little mouse sets out on an adventure of astronomical proportions, in order to prove them wrong.The mix of beautiful illustrations and wonderful narrative make this a simply enchanting and captivating read.DISCLOSURE I received a complimentary eBook version of 'Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon' in exchange for writing an honest review.