Oddo, Nick

Nick Oddo has been interested in space, writing, and researching from a young age. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he taught elementary school in Ann Arbor. He then wrote the Exploring Science series published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. In the late 1960s, when moon exploration was all anyone talked about, he co-founded Classic Press in San Rafael, California. There, he helped to design, publish, and market the Educator Classic Library, a series of thirty children's classic books. In 1969, the year of the lunar landing, he co-published We Came In Peace, a primer on space....