Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Rags, Borya and the Rocket; a tale of home-less dogs and how they became famous (1964)




(English trans of Russian book: Tiapa, Borka i Paketa : povest o brodiachikh sobakakn, kotorye stali znamenitymi).



Baranova, M.P. and Veltistov, Y. Illustrated by Y. Migunov and K. Rotov. Rags, Borya and the Rocket; a tale of home-less dogs and how they became famous, 1964.


A story of the real "space dogs" of Russia mixed in with a fictional story of how a particular dog joined the space program. The illustrations are interesting.





There is also a rather satirical drawing near the end commenting on the coming space age.



1 comment:

  1. I see they left out as to how they were put down afterwards.

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