>I'm over the Moon!

by Roger Sutton
Mar 17, 2009 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
>Okay, not really, but I just finished talking with Buzz Aldrin, who really has been over--and on--the Moon. How cool is that? I was interviewing him for the upcoming issue of Notes from the Horn Book, wherein we feature his and Wendell Minor's Look to the Stars.

Everybody has something that will get them talking, and for Mr. Aldrin it was SCUBA-diving.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Anonymous

>I liked when Ali G interviewed him and kept calling him Buzz Lightyear.

Posted : Mar 18, 2009 04:10

janeyolen

>About ten years ago, my husband, son, his new girlfriend (now wife),one of my authors--Kara Dalkey--and her then husband John who was writing a book with Aldrin all had dinner together.

Mostly we listened to Buzz talking. And individually we found ourselves thinking--whenever we worried maybe we should be part of the conversation, too, not just audience-- "He's been on the moon!"

We were absolutely awed.

Not a bad thing to be.

Jane

Posted : Mar 18, 2009 12:15

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