Upside Down Day

by Julian Scheer (Illustrator)

Description by the extraordinarily brilliant Maria Popova at Brain Pickings:

In 1968, less than a year before the iconic NASA moon landing, a charming children’s book titled Upside Down Day made its debut. What made it special weren’t just the vibrant illustrations by artist Kelly Oechsli, but that it was written by Julian Scheer — the head of NASA’s Public Affairs Office, responsible for enchanting Americans with the space program. There is something immeasurably wonderful about knowing that the person in charge of tickling the public imagination into embracing the pursuit of space exploration — a pursuit subject to tragic neglect today — was himself an imaginative storyteller who knew how to inhabit that delicate intersection of whimsy and irreverence.

See Maria's full review and description atL
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04...

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[Beverlee Jobrack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful!

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Delightful rhymes and detailed, funny images all about those days that don't quite go according to plan. So much emotional resilience arises simply out of the ability we have to put our experiences into words, and to share them with others so that we don't feel so alone. This book provides such an engaging way to provide some of these foundations, without being gloomy, preachy or suggesting that there is any right or wrong way to deal with life's curve-balls (except, sometimes to laugh!).