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The Art of Spelling
Kazakhstan
The Baikonur Cosmodrome
Getting Ready
Doctor Rottopov
The Launch
In Space
The International Space Station
Inside the ISS
Brumbum
We Fight for Survival
A Spacewalk
A Strange Encounter
To be a Dog
Stranded in Space
Crisis
The Big Bluff
Professor Ati Shu
William Sets a Trap
The Return
Joyful Tidings
Appendix: Space Dog Pioneers
Laika
Bars and Lisichka
Belka and Strelka
Pchyolka and Mushka
Damka and Krasavka
Chernushka
Zvyozdochka
Veterok and Ugolyok
Boris
Dogtective William in Space
Elizabeth Wasserman
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I was perplexed. The spelling olympiad was only tomorrow. But when I heard the voice of Chief Superintendent Spears greeting me warmly, I immediately understood that I had to play along with whatever tale he was spinning.
“Alex, my chap, put on a happy face. I have told your mother that you’ve won the local round of that spelling thing and now we’re sending you to Johannesburg for the final competition. Utter nonsense, of course. But we have a bit of a … situation, and we need Dogtective William to come and help. You too, of course!” he added as an afterthought.
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