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Forget Yuri Gagarin: Britain got there first. So, at least, runs the story in Diana Ross鈥檚 1956 The Little Red Engine and the Rocket, now reissued, with Leslie Woods鈥檚 bold, jazzy illustrations, as an Andre Deutsch Classic. 鈥淚t鈥檚 about building a rocket and how the Little Red Engine helps,鈥� explained Josh (aged four-and-a-half). 鈥淚 learned what it鈥檚 like to be in space鈥攊t鈥檚 fun and you float.鈥� Fifties can-do fervour is well to the fore. As the engine himself put it, 鈥淚n you get and away we go.鈥� 拢6.99, ISBN 023399405X.