Here is a very nice coloring book from Japan. With no text it is hard to tell if it was totally orignal drawings or based some existing show or toy. The format was one pre-colored page next to one page for the child to color.
Space Colouring Book. Japan. 1965? (14 pp.)
Here is an example of the side by side pages, one coloring page and one guide page already colored.
Some of these look like Manga ships and others like Von Braun's.
I love the variety of vehicles shown.
Since I am not posting much this month here is a huge treat!
Another interesting artifact. Some illustrations from a 1959 (date unknown) Japanese Children's Science Encyclopedia. It has some wonderful painted space illustrations from the volume about transportation. It was originally published in 1956 but it seems to have updated sections through 1959 to take in current events.
"Shogakukan (Primary School) Learning Picture Book Series"
Don't have much else I can say about the books (or even what the title of the encyclopedia is).
I wonder if it is a translation of another encyclopedia? Many of the other illustrations in this and the other volumes seem very specific to Japan.
I have a deep love for the 1955 Walt Disney's "Man in Space" feature film. I have blogged about other things I have found about it including a comic book:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2009/07/man-in-space-science-feture-from.html
and a classroom guide:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2017/02/man-in-space-disney-classroom-guide-1958.html
This is another neat item, a listing of the film in a Japanese film program. When Man in Space made it to the theaters it was shown in Japan with the movie Bambi. At the time a movie program for Bambi was sold and there was a a section about the Man in Space feature film.
I am supposing that the picture from "The Earth to the Moon" reflects the history of space flight in film.
I am sorry it is not easier to translate Japanese but this is still a fun piece of ephemera.