I am looking for a children's science fiction picture book from the sixties or early seventies. It involved astronauts traveling to an alien planet and fighting aliens. The astronauts are losing, until they realize the aliens' weakness is oxygen. They use oxygen guns to defeat the aliens. It was a black and white board book with blue shading. The aliens looked skeletal with minimal spacesuits.
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Wow, that's a lot of plot for a board book. Those things don't usually have much in the way of words.– CatijaCommented Jan 25, 2016 at 1:01
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1This is probably the same book as asked about here: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/160976/…– BuzzCommented Dec 7, 2017 at 14:16
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Here's another one that is probably the book in question: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/165861/…– BuzzCommented Jan 2, 2018 at 1:11
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Also duplicating my answer (from here):
Bone People by Henry A. Bamman
It's book three in the Space science fiction series.
Duplicating my answer from here:
There is little to go on here, but much of what you have described sounds like Mighty Mouse and the Moon Men. The titular hero travels to the moon to investigate some kind of menace. He encounters a race of thin, almost skeletal aliens (rather creepy looking in the cartoon illustration). I think they are actually from the asteroid belt, just using the moon for a base. Eventually, Mighty Mouse defeats them with a gun that shoots air, which seems to "freeze" the vacuum-dwelling creatures.
