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Cargando... Space Cat Visits Venus (1955)por Ruthven Todd
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Space Cat Visits Venus is the second book in the Space Cat series. It came out in 1955, or a mere two years before the Space Age began. Unlike real life, where humans visited the moon a few times and then let it alone. As I am writing this review in 2023, it has been 51 years since a human went to our moon. In Space Cat's world, humans have already built the first city on the moon: Luna Port. Flyball still lives with his friend, Fred Stone, who has been promoted to Colonel. Author Ruthven Todd once again demonstrates how well he knew cats. Flyball patrols Luna Port, allowing the observatory staff to show him their new photos, although he's not interested in star gazing. If they should want him to visit one to inspect it, he's ready. In the meantime, there's the new rocket being built for a trip to Venus. The cat knows it's being built for HIM and Fred, of course. None of his spot checks of packages arriving from earth has given him a single mouse to chase. He hopes to find some on Venus. This Venus has air breathable by Earth lifeforms, once past the ammonia clouds. I thoroughly enjoyed the description of the land, plant life, and violet sky. As it turns out, a moss-like plant with tiny white flowers called a pyxyx
With Flyball goes his pal Colonel Fred Stone, who pilots the ship, under Flyball's surveillance, and the car enters into some surprising experiences with sensitive Venusian plants which have animals for pets. Pertenece a las seriesSpace Cat (2)
Flyball the space cat is back for his second fun-filled adventure, and this time he's living in Luna Port, the first city on the Moon. Workers at the lunar station are building a rocket to transport him and his pilot buddy, Colonel Stone, to Venus. The two friends take a long voyage to the planet, where they encounter violet skies, torrential ammonia rains, and strange plants that can communicate without speaking. Special hardcover edition. AGES: 6 to 10 AUTHOR: Scottish poet, novelist, and artist Ruthven Todd (1914-78) is best known as an editor of William Blake's works and as an author of children's stories, including four Space Cat adventures. He also wrote detective fiction under the pseudonym R. T. Campbell. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Premise/plot: Flyball (the cat) and Colonel Fred Stone (the human) are the first to travel to Venus in this early chapter book originally published in 1955. In the first book, these two become the first to travel to the Moon. In fact, these two now live on the Moon--at least part time. But now in this second book, they are getting ready for more firsts. The rocket that will send them to Venus is being built on the Moon. And soon these two will be on their way. What will they find?
My thoughts: I was so disappointed in this second book. I found the first book charming enough. I did. This second one was slightly duller than I'd prefer. What they find on Venus is plants, plants, and more plants. Granted some of these plants are highly evolved and communicative. There's one that can read thoughts, for example. But at the end of the day, the two are just essentially looking at a lot of exotic space plants. Flyball also seems less cat-like in this one. Perhaps because the first book started with him being just a normal, super-curious cat that happened to wander into Fred Stone's life and just happened to become a space-travelling kitty. The origin story works for me better than this.