The following are some highlights from recent additions to
the Cotsen Children’s Library’s growing collection of Soviet illustrated books for young readers.
Baraban (Drum). Author Mikhail Ortsevi; Illustrations by M. Purgol’d. Moscow; Leningrad: Raduga, 1926.
Domna (Blast Furnace). Author Nikolai Asanov; Illustrations by G. Echeistov. Moscow:
Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930.
Nas mnogo (There many of us). Auther Margarita Il’inichna Ivensen; Illustrations by A. Brei.
Moscow: OGIZ-Molodaia gvardiia, 1932.
Kak postroili gorod (How the city was built). Author: Esther Solomonovna Papernaia.
Illustrations by A. Poret, L. Kapustin. [Moscow]: Molodaia gvardiia, 1932.
Shimpanze i martyshka (The Chimpanzee and the Marmoset). [Moscow]: Gosudarstvennoe
izdatel’stvo, 1930.
Konveier (The Assembly Line). Alexander Nikolaevich Abramov. Illustrations by Laptev. [Moscow]: OGIZ-Molodaia gvardiia, 1931.
Pro pchel i pro Mishku medvedia; Muraveigrad (About the Bees and Teddy Bear; City of Ants). Author Elizveta Polonskaia; Illustrations by B. Pokrovskii. Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe
izdatel’stvo, 1926.
Barabanshchik sovkhoza (The Sovkhoz Drummer). Author Nadezhda Alexandrovna Pavlovich; Illustrations by M. Siniakova. [Moscow] OGIZ-Molodaia gvardiia, 1931.