History Literature / AdventuresOfDunno

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Dunno on the Moon'' comparing to the first two books; from lighthearted adventures, to [[CapitalismIsEvil greed, corruption and workers oppression]].

* BalefulPolymorph: In ''Dunno in Sun City'', Dunno gets ahold of a magic wand and, later, turns a know-it-all Sun City resident into a donkey in a fit of anger. He later tries to fix it but only succeeds in turning three actual donkeys escaped from a zoo into humans... who then proceed to act in a very uncivilized manner.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Dunno on the Moon'' comparing to the first two books.

* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: Mr. Squids is arguably the BigBad of ''Dunno on the Moon'', and the rest of Lunar oligarchs are no better. Mr. Niggardfield does make a HeelFaceTurn, but only after he loses his property. The only capitalist who gets anything good said about him, is a minor character, who owns a network of flophouses, and even then, it's only by comparison.

* ShooOuttheClowns: in the third and [[DarkerAndEdgier the darkest]] book the crew that travels to the Moon with a rescue mission consists mostly of the smartest and most mature Earth mites( many of whom are scientists), very much unlike in the lighthearted first book where Dunno travels by hot-air balloon with his neighbours, many of whom aren't much smarter than him and only serve as comic relief.

%%* TheSmartGuy: Doono.

* NiceHat: Dunno's large, sky blue hat.

''Adventures of Dunno'' is a Soviet trilogy of children's novels by Nikolay Nosov, about a childlike people of liliputians, called Mites, living in a GhibliHills - esque MouseWorld. It combines didacticism, teaching kids to be friendly, honest and persistent, with fun adventures, humour and amazement. Since it's a Soviet work, it carries strong themes of egalitarianism, enlightenment and optimism without being too anvilicious about it.

!!''AdventuresOfDunno'' books are:

* RealityEnsues: In the third novel, Doono builds a spacious rocket powered by lunite-generated ArtificialGravity and requiring fairly little fuel for thrust. However, Dunno and Roly-Poly, who have not been selected for the journey to the Moon, sneak aboard the night before the launch and accidentally launch the rocket. The next day, after realizing what happened, Doono starts building another rocket to rescue the foolish Mites. This rocket, without the benefit of lunite, is built with Spartan accomodations and a far smaller crew with most of the space devoted to rocket fuel. It's still a single-stage RetroRocket, though.

* AscendedExtra: In the first book Pee-Wee had very little screentime and individuality and spoke only four lines, in the second book she is the {{Deuteragonist}}. ZigZagged, since in the third book is only mentioned once.
** Doono and Roly Poly. In the first book their personalities were established and they did somewhat influenced the plot but they didn't get much focus, in the second book they were only mentioned and in the third book they played a bigger role than any other Earth mite, except for Dunno.

* ShooOuttheClowns: in the third and [[DarkerAndEdgier the darkest]] book the crew that travels to the Moon with a rescue mission consists mostly of the smartest and most mature Earth mites( many of whom are scientists), very much unlike the first books where Dunno travels by hot-air balloon with his neighbours, many of whom aren't much smarter than him and only serve as comic relief.

* AscendedExtra: Dirty Garish in ''Dunno in Sun City''.

* OneGenderRace: The inhabitants of Dunno's towns are all boys... but in the second book, he lands near a town inhabitend solely by girl mites (who do mention that they have the boys, but they're too busy to wander around the countryside in summer).

* BrokenAesop: How does Dunno propose to solve the problem of world hunger on the Moon? By introducing seeds from Earth that will grow into gigantic (for Mites) fruits and vegetables compared to the more proportionate plants on the Moon. This is all well and good, but we don't have any seeds for giant plants to solve our problems in RealLife.

* UrbanLegend: Boris Yeltsin is said to have sworn on ''Dunno on the Moon'' during his first inauguration (the actual Constitution of the Russian Federarion was too thin and unassuming, so it was decided to substitute a thicker book for the inauguration to be more visually impressive). Thus, the NewRussia became a capitalist dystopia, not unlike the one described in the book.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dunno.

* MrFixit: Bendum and Twistum.

* PetTheDog: Mr.Niggardfield's love to animals is the first sign of his future HeelFaceTurn.

* TheSmartGuy: Doono.

* {{Utopia}}: The Sun City
* WretchedHive: The Little Earth under the surface of the Moon (the Moon turns out to be hollow). In contrast to the Earth Mites, the Lunar Mites are, for the most part, greedy and selfish. This is the first book to feature the concept of money, and Dunno nearly gets arrested for trying to leave a restaurant without paying (Earth Mites don't use money).