Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Blast Off by Linda C. Cain and Susan Rosenbaum, ill. Leo and Diane Dillon

Kate and I are on a perpetual hunt for older children’s books that broke new ground, and show that the history of children’s book publishing could occasionally incorporate a wider variety of voices and styles. Today we take a trip back to 1973 to a book that was originally released just a year after the final Apollo missions. It has now been reprinted for the first time in years by The New York Review Children’s Collection, released just last week. Think that’s good? Kate points out that thi...