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A harvest of Russian children's literature
Format:
Book
Title:
A harvest of Russian children's literature
ISBN:
9780520017450

9780520008861
Publication:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1967]
Physical Description:
xiv, 474 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
General Note:
Includes index of authors and illustrators.
Contents:
Verses and tales for boys and girls from five to seven -- A feast of folk tales for all ages -- Stories, verse, and fables for boys and girls from eight to eleven -- Short stories, selections from novels, prose poems for more mature young readers: ages twelve to fifteen and up.

The Silly Little Mouse ; Henny Penny and the Ten Ducklings ; Snooks ; Two Cats / Samuel Marshak ; translated by Margaret Wettlin -- The Cockroach ; The Magic Tree ; The No-Water Boy ; Zakaliaka / Kornei Chukovsky ; translated by Miriam Morton -- I'm a Big Girl Now ; My Seashell / Agnya Barto -- Cradle Song ; The Rabbit / Alexander Blok ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Summer Rain / Apollon Maikov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Cricket / Agnya Barto -- The Miller, the Boy, and the Ass / Samuel Marshak ; translated by Margaret Wettlin -- My Best Friend and I ; The Song of the Merry Friends ; Uncle Steeple / Sergei Mikhalkov -- We Have Made a Wish / translated by Miriam Morton -- Two tales. Sunrays ; Mitya's Four Wishes / Konstantin Ushinsky ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Tales for Alyonushka. The Little Tale Before the Big Tale ; Quicky-Tricky the Sparrow, Handy-Dandy the Perch, and Yasha the Gay Chimney Sweep ; Long Ears-Squint Eyes-Stub Tail, the Bravest Rabbit of Them All / Dmitri Mamin-Sibiryak ; translated by Irina Zheleznova -- Conscience / Alexander Sokolovsky ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Short Stories for Young Children. Two Friends ; The Old Man and the Apple ; Trees ; The Duck and the Moon ; The Squirrel and the Wolf ; The Grandfather and His Little Grandson ; The Wolf and the Dog ; The Czar and the Falcon ; The Lion and the Puppy / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Frog Went A-Traveling / Vsevolod Garshin ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Do You Know?: Snowflakes, A Hailstone Went Visiting, The Invisible One / M. Ilyin and E. Segal ; translated by Fainna Solasko -- Tall Tales / Nikolai Nosov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Rainbow Flower / Valentin, Kataev ; translated by Fainna Glagoleva -- The New Year's Tree in the Sokolniki School / Alexander Kononov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends / Nikolai Nosov ; translated by Margaret Wettlin -- Little Cock, Feather Frock (A Russian folktale) / Adapted by Aleksei Tolstoy ; translated by E. Felgenhauer -- The Cock and the Bean (A Russian folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Doughnut (A Russian folktale) / translated by Dorian Rottenberg -- Little Girl and the Swan-Geese (A Russian folktale) / translated by Bernard Isaacs -- Tiny Havroshechka (A Russian folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Cuckoo (A Nenets folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- Ayoga (A Nanaian folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Girl and the Moon Man (A Chukchi folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Rich Man and the Poor Man (A Caucasian folktale) / retold by Samuel Marshak ; translated by Margaret Wettlin -- The Frog Princess (A Russian folktale) / translated by Bernard Isaacs -- The Magic Fiddle (A Belorussian folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- Pilipka and Baba-Yaga (A Belorussian folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- How Vasil Vanquished the Dragon (A Belorussian folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- How the Brothers Found Their Father's Treasure (A Moldavian Folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- How a Muzhik Dined with the Haughty Lord (A Ukrainian Folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Story of Zarniyar (An Azerbaijan Folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- A Mountain of Gems (A Turkmenian Folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Fern Girl (A Yakut Folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- The Golden Cup (A Buryat Folktale) / translated by Irina Zheleznova -- Silver Hoof (A Folktale from the Urals) / Adapted by Pavel Bazhov ; translated by Eve Manning and Miriam Morton -- The Mightiest of Them All (A Kazakh Folktale) / Adapted by Victor Vazhdaev ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Two Stories. A Fish Story ; Simple Ivanushka / Maxim Gorky ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Jump ; Poor People / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Burglar / Konstantin Paustovsky ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Three Fat Men / Yuri Olesha ; translated by Fainna Glagoleva -- After School / V. Zheleznikov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- A Merry Family / Nikolai Nosov ; Rose Prokofieva -- Rags, Borya, and the Rocket / M. Baranova and Y. Veltistov ; translated by Anne Hansen and Miriam Morton -- The Old Genie Hottabych / Lazar Lagin ; translated by Fainna Solasko -- Be Prepared, Your Highness / Leo Kassil ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Little Humpbacked Horse: A Tale in Verse / Pyotr Ershov ; translated by Louis Zellikof -- Fables. The Dog and the Horse ; The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab ; The Quartet / Ivan Krylov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Mumu / Ivan Turgenev; translated by Miriam Morton -- How a Muzhik Fed Two Officials / Mikhail Saltykov-Schedrin -- Children of the Vaults / Vladimir Korolenko ; translated by Helen Altschuler -- Two Stories. The Boys ; Van'ka / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Tales of Italy. Pepe ; Children of Parma / Maxim Gorky ; translated by Miriam Morton and Rose Prokofieva -- The First Song / Semyon E. Rosenfeld ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Cottage in the Steppe / Valentin Kataev ; translated by Fainna Solasko and Eve Manning -- Alien Blood / Mikhail Sholokhov ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Eaglets: The Hard Road / N. Nadezhdina ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Boy and the Officer / A. Busyrev ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Story of a Real Man: The Eighteenth Day in the Forest / Boris Polevoy ; translated by Joseph Fineberg -- Daredevils / Aleksei Tolstoy ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Village ; A Sea Voyage ; The Sparrow / Ivan Turgenev ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Dew on the Grass ; The Swans / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Miriam Morton -- Spring of Light ; Cumulus Clouds ; Land! / Mikhail Prishvin ; translated by Miriam Morton -- The Thaw / Sergei Aksakov ; translated by Miriam Morton.
Summary:
An anthology of favorite Russian poems, stories and folk tales for children, arranged in sections for three different age groups and a collection of folklore.
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