Laika was the first dog in space; sent up by the Soviets in Sputnik II in 1957. She was sort of a terrier, samoyed mix. In this richly imagined graphic novel by Nick Abadis, Laika was loved by some people in her life and abandoned by others, and then loved again before she was lost in space. One of too many puppies born to a wealthy Muscovite, she is sent off with her siblings to a poorer Russian family, where she is loved by the little girl of the family who is eventually forced to give her up, Laika then begins a journey that sends her off into history. Abadis does a wonderful job telling the story of Kudryavka, as Laika is first named here, and of Sergei Korolev, head of the Sputnik program, and of Yelena Alexandrovna Dubrovsky, Laika's handler, care-giver and last friend.
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