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David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” Adapted Into World’s Saddest Children’s Book

David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” has been re-imagined as a brilliant but disturbing children’s book by Andrew Kolb. (via.) posted on August 28, 2011 at 6:16pm EDT

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