Stories tagged Margaret and the Moon

Lucy Knisley ′09 — Keeping Score

Lucy Knisley ′09 has been a prolific cartoonist. Graduating from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2009, she has published eight books in the last 10 years, most of them in the last 5:

2008—French Milk (Touchstone)
2013—Relish (First Second)
2014—An Age of License (Fantagraphics)
2015—Displacement (Fantagraphics)
2016—Something New (First Second)
2017—Margaret and the Moon (Knopf Books for Young Readers), illustrator
2018–Love, Penelope (Amulet Books), illustrator

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Tags: An Age of License, cartoonstudies, Chronicle Books, Displacement, Eisner Award nominee, Fantagraphics, First Second, French Milk, Go To Sleep / I Miss You, Kid Gloves, Knopf, Love Penelope, Lucy Knisley, Margaret and the Moon, New Kid, Random House, Relish, Something New, Stepping Stones, Touchstone, You Are New

Lucy Knisley’s ′09 New Children’s Book, “You Are New”

Straight on the heals of her book about having a baby, Kid Gloves (First Second), Lucy Knisley ′09 is releasing a children’s book about being a baby, You Are New (Chronicle Books). Coming in March, You Are New is Lucy’s second children’s book. Margaret and the Moon (Knopf Books, 2017), written by Dean Robbins, is about Margaret Hamilton, who, in 1964, went to work for NASA and became the director of Software Programming for Project Apollo.

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Tags: cartoonstudies, children's books, Chronicle Books, First Second, Kid Gloves, Knopf Books, Lucy Knisley, Margaret and the Moon, You Are New

Air and Space picks Knisley’s “Margaret and the Moon”

Margaret and the Moon, written by Dean Robbins and illustrated by Lucy Knisley (’09) was released in May this year, telling the story of one of the women of NASA, Margaret Hamilton. And now Air and Space, a Smithsonian magazine, has listed it among the best aviation- and space-themed children’s books of 2017. “Young readers are sure to be engrossed . . . .”

Margaret Hamilton originally started working for NASA on the Apollo space mission. Her teams were responsible for developing in-flight software and the systems software, including error detection and recovery software (like restarts). She helped Apollo 11 land on the moon after several computer alarms went of and became the hero of the mission. She also coined the term “software engineering” during these Apollo space missions!

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Tags: Air and Space, Cartoon Studies, Dean Robbins, Lucy Knisley, Margaret and the Moon, Margaret Hamilton, nonfiction, reviews

A 32-page comic on how our government works

This Is What Democracy Looks Like comic cover

Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.

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Stories tagged Margaret and the Moon

Lucy Knisley ′09 — Keeping Score

Lucy Knisley’s ′09 New Children’s Book, “You Are New”

Air and Space picks Knisley’s “Margaret and the Moon”

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