{"id":87,"date":"2008-03-29T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/29\/review-of-laika-by-nick-abadzis\/"},"modified":"2008-05-07T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:35:56","slug":"review-of-laika-by-nick-abadzis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Review of Laika, by Nick Abadzis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image105\" height=\"110\" alt=\"laika.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/laika.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laika, by Nick Abadzis<\/p>\n<p>First Second, New York, 2007.\u00a0 205 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickabadzis.com\/\">http:\/\/www.nickabadzis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstsecondbooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.firstsecondbooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This acclaimed graphic novel tells the story of Laika, a special little dog chosen to be the first living creature in space.<\/p>\n<p>Laika&#8217;s life intertwines with many people &#8212; A former prisoner of the gulag who was promoted to Chief Designer in the space program, a little girl who loved the dog with the curly tail at birth, a boy who didn&#8217;t want responsibility for a puppy, a dogcatcher who resented the dog&#8217;s independent spirit, and an animal trainer who talked to the dogs at night before she went home.<\/p>\n<p>The book tells a sad story.\u00a0 It also makes you think.\u00a0 When is it right to sacrifice the life of a dog &#8212; for science, for country, for glory?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to get used to graphic novels.\u00a0 This is a high-quality one and is a nice choice to begin learning the form and how it can tell a story.<\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/laika.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/laika.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Laika, by Nick Abadzis First Second, New York, 2007.\u00a0 205 pages. http:\/\/www.nickabadzis.com\/ http:\/\/www.firstsecondbooks.com\/ This acclaimed graphic novel tells the story of Laika, a special little dog chosen to be the first living creature in space. Laika&#8217;s life intertwines with many people &#8212; A former prisoner of the gulag who was promoted to Chief Designer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novel","category-historical","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}