The Collected Adventures of Dunno and Friends: Book One

  • 14 Nov, 2020

Originally brought to life in Russian by Nikolai Nosov in 1953, Dunno and his Flower Town gang enthralled kids of all ages across the world for decades before disappearing off the face of the Earth with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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This collection comprises of the first ten adventures in one place, published by Raduga (Moscow) in the '80s - translated to English by Margaret Wettlin, illustrated by Boris Kalaushin, lost for three decades and now, digitized and revived in 2020 for your reading pleasure.
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The Bibliophile's Guide to Dunno

Once upon a time, there existed a superpower - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest country in the world. Spread across an area of 22 million square kilometers, it covered one-sixth of the Earth's land surface - equivalent to seven times the size of India.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #1 - The Mites of Flower Town

Once upon a time, in a town in fairyland, lived some people called the Mites. They were called the Mites because they were very tiny. The biggest of them was no bigger than a pine cone.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #2 - Dunno Takes Music Lessons

Dunno never could do anything right. He never got beyond reading in syllables, and he could only write printed letters. Some people said his head was empty, but that was not true, because he could not have thought at all if it had been empty. To be sure, he did not think much, but he put his boots on his feet and not on his head, and it takes some thinking to do even that.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #3 - How Dunno Became an Artist

Вlobs was a very good artist. He always wore a long shirt called a smock. He looked very splendid standing in front of his easel, palette in hand, in his smock, and with his long hair thrown back. Anyone could see he was a real artist.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #4 - How Dunno Became a Poet

When nothing came of Dunno's efforts to become an artist, he decided to become a poet. He knew a poet who lived in Dandelion Street. The real name of this poet was Turnips, but since all poets like to have beautiful names, he chose another for himself.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #5 - How Dunno Took a Ride in a Soda-Water Car

Bendum and his helper Twistum were very good tinkers. They looked exactly alike, except that Bendum was the least bit taller and Twistum was the least bit shorter. Both of them wore leather jackets, and in their pockets they always carried files, wrenches, screwdrivers, and other tools. If the pockets hadn't been made of leather they would have been torn off long ago. Their caps were also made of leather and they had goggles on them. Bendum and Twistum pulled down the goggles when they were working to keep the dust and dirt out of their eyes.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #6 - How Doono Made a Balloon

Doono, who was a great reader, had read a lot of travel books. Often of an evening he would tell his friends about what he had read. The Mites loved to listen to his stories. They liked to hear about countries they had never seen, but they liked even better to hear stories about famous travellers, for the most extraordinary things always happen to travellers.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #7 - Preparations for the Ascent

The next morning Doono woke his friends up earlier than usual. They got up and began dressing for the flight. Bendum and Twistum put on their leather jackets. Shot put on his favourite hip boots that buckled above the knee - very good boots for a long journey.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #8 - Up in the Air in a Balloon

At last the balloon was filled to bursting with hot air. Doono had the boiler taken away and he himself tied the end of the balloon with a strong cord so that the hot air could not escape. Then he ordered his friends to get into the basket.

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #9 - Up in the Clouds

So smoothly did the balloon rise into the air that our brave explorers were quite unaware of it. Only a minute later when they glanced over the side, did they see the crowd of Mites far down below waving their hands and throwing their caps into the air. And they caught faint sounds of "Hurrah!"

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The Bibliophile's Bedtime Stories: Dunno's Adventures #10 - An Accident

Some people think that the higher you go, the warmer it is. That is not true. The higher you go, the colder it is, because the sun heats the earth with its rays. The earth becomes like a stove, and everybody knows that the closer you are to a stove, the warmer it is.

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Hope you and/or your kids enjoyed this blast from the past. Book Two coming soon.

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