Illustrations are great and the story is OK but the ending is horrible. LДIKA? ДSTRONДUT? DДVEY? Seriously? It looks stupid. Д is a D in Russian.
Unfortunately, this is not a very honest story about Laika. She may have indeed died sooner than expected due to a malfunction but she would have died anyway as the Soviets had no way of recovering the spacecraft. Laika's imagined rescue by aliens is comforting wishful thinking but seems a cowardly ...
I really liked this goodnight book with it's muted palette and immersion in the imagination of little boy knight.
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