About the Book: Earthrise: The Story of the Photograph That Changed the Way We
See Our Planet
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from The New York Times and Kirkus Reviews
From award-winning historian Leonard S. Marcus, Earthrise is a unique
middle-grade nonfiction book about the astonishing photograph taken during the
Apollo 8 mission that forever shifted the way we view ourselves and our planet.
Gazing out the window of the Apollo 8 spacecraft on Christmas Eve, 1968, NASA
astronaut Bill Anders grabbed his camera and snapped the iconic color photo of
our planet rising over the lunar horizon. Not long after