History Literature / AdventuresOfDunno

* ShoutOut: Fool's Island in ''Dunno on the Moon'' is clearly based on the Land of Toys from ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.

* [[HollowEarth Hollow Moon]]: The third novel reveals that the Moon is actually hollow with a tiny Earth inside it populated by Mites. Somehow, they have the illusion of the Sun and suffer no ill effects. The main difference is that all flora on the small Earth is proportional to the Mites. Also, lacking space travel, they are not aware that they are inside a planetoid.

* UrbanLegend: an out-of-universe one. The legend tells about Boris Yeltsin's first inauguration, when they deemed the real Constitution of the Russian Federarion is a too thin and unassuming book, and tried to find some other, thicker book for Yeltsin to take the presidential oath on. That book was ''Dunno on the Moon''. And thus TheNewRussia became the caricatural, dystopian capitalist society described in the book.

* 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.

* ChewToy: In the chapters centered on Mr.Niggardfield's adventures, he just goes [[HumiliationConga from one humiliation to another]].

* {{Utopia}}: The Sun City

* ChewToy: In the chapters centered on Mr.Niggardfield adventures, he just goes [[HumiliationConga from one humiliation to another]].

* ChewToy: In the chapters centered about Mr.Niggardfield adventures, he just goes [[HumiliationConga from one humiliation to another]].

* TheScrooge: Mr. Niggardfield. And just like [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the Trope Namer himself]], he makes a HeelFaceTurn in the last chapters.

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

* ''Dunno on the Moon'' (1966).

The capitalist Lunar Mites have names that resemble Western ones, with English, French or Spanish suffixes which makes it a little hard to translate and preserve the difference between the Russian-named Earth Mites and the "American" Lunar Mites like Mr.Squids, Cheatio and Niggardfield. This, however, only applies to the villains; the sympathetic, honest, working-class Lunar Mites, like the worker Buckgoat and the farmer Ear o'Wheat, are called the same as Earth Mites.

The capitalist Lunar Mites have names that resemble Western ones, with English, French or Spanish suffixes which makes it a little hard to translate and preserve the difference between the Russian-named Earth Mites and the "American" Lunar Mites like Mr.Squids, Cheatio and Niggardfield. This, however, only applies to the villains; the honest, working-class Lunar Mites are called the same as Earth Mites.

Other Mites, Dunno's friends, rivals and acquaintances, also have names that conform to their personalities. Doono ("Do know") is an OmnidisciplinaryScientist, Bendum and Twistum are engineers, Roly-Poly is a BigEater, Dr.Pillman is a physician, Dirty Garish is a [[ThePigPen Pig Pen]] (and unflappable), Glass Eye is an astronomer, and Wizard is a wizard.

The Mites are a tiny people, sized like a small cucumber, for whom [[MouseWorld grass looks like forest and mushrooms like trees]], living unknown to humans in an unspecified place on Earth. The protagonist, Dunno (Russian: Neznayka, from "I don't know") is not the sharpest knife in the Mites' drawer, and gets into heaps of trouble. However, he's an AdventureMagnet and, despite being ignorant, lazy and rude, succeeds by virtue of his curiosity, kindness and luck. In the first novel, he travels around Mite-land and gets into general wacky hijinks; in the second novel, he meets a wizard Mite who gives him a magical wand that grants wishes, and uses it to have fun, disrupting the fragile utopian society of the Sun City, which he visits. In the third novel, he travels to the Moon, where a society of capitalist Mites lives in a WretchedHive, ruled by the only real villains in the franchise.