{"product_id":"blast-off-isbn-9781681375687","title":"Blast Off","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring story about a young Black girl who wants to be an astronaut, written years before Black astronauts were sent into space. This remarkable picture book has been out of print for decades, until now.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1973, a year after the final Apollo mission, when American astronauts were exclusively white and male, \u003ci\u003eBlast Off\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a young African American girl with a vision and a mission. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegina Williams wants to be an astronaut. One day she’s drawing a picture of a rocket ship on the sidewalk when her friends come by and start to tease her. “You’ll never be an astronaut,” they say. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn reply, she builds her own spaceship with old boxes, pipes, and cans. Before long she’s in space, her eyes wide with wonder at the smallness of the blue-green Earth, the blackness of space, the stars and satellites. When she comes back down to earth, her friends don’t believe her, but she knows her dream is real. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn inspiring story of interstellar space travel with illustrations by the legendary Diane and Leo Dillon.“[An] extraordinarily imaginative little book. . . . \u003ci\u003eBlast Off\u003c\/i\u003e endures as a heartening antidote to a culture that all too frequently contains and confines children’s dreams by selling them lesser visions of the possible, failing to cultivate in them the essential capacity to imagine immensities.” —Maria Popova, \u003ci\u003eBrain Pickings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBlast Off \u003c\/i\u003eis fantastic.” —Betsy Bird\u003cb\u003eLinda C. Cain\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSusan Rosenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e’s \u003ci\u003eBlast Off\u003c\/i\u003e was illustrated by \u003cb\u003eLeo\u003c\/b\u003e (1933–2012) and \u003cb\u003eDiane Dillon\u003c\/b\u003e. The Dillons worked together on more than 50 children’s books and were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Illustrators in 2008.","brand":"NYR Children's Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300707848421,"sku":"NP9781681375687","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681375687.jpg?v=1767722757","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/blast-off-isbn-9781681375687","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}