From our Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection, here’s a page from “Sa
From our Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection, here’s a page from “Samsusam” and a translation provided by our very own conservator extraordinaire, Sibylla Benatova. This page is a poem which means:Sam lives without a worryHe throws his mustache into the seaAnd instantaneously catches Pike, ruffе, and rockfish for a hundred years ahead. And should he feel like a second course Sam would blink with his eyelashesand a flock of birds would fly into his mouth.***Samsusam, Leningrad ; Moskva :Raduga, [192-?]PZ64 3 A53 1920z http://ow.ly/eZTp30hlSK8 Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection***#kislakcenter #pennlibraries #childrensbooks #rarebooks #childrensliterature #fromthestacks #sovietchildrensbooks #illustration #poetry #fineprinting #sovietliterature -- source link
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