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Laika: Words and Pictures and Music

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September 26, 2009
Posted by: Mark Siegel
Categories: Music

Laika (the graphic novel about the first dog to travel to outer space by Nick Abadzis) is tragic and wonderful and pulls on all of our heartstrings here at First Second.  So when Nick e-mailed us to say that an Italian composer named Luca Tozzi also had his heartstrings tugged on by the book, we Read the Rest…

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