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I.A. Krylov: Basni
("ĖKSMO"Eksmo, 2005)
This is a very pleasant contemporary rendition of Krylov. The artistic style combines contemporary sensibility with traditional Russian approaches. Thus the fox addressing the crow with cheese in its beak -- and a babuschka ...
The Cicada and the Ant (Russian)
(State Publishing House for Children's Literature, 1960)
This 16-page pamphlet for children contains Krylov's poetry for five fables: GA, The Monkey and the Spectacles, The Elephant and the Dog, FC, and FG. That is a great selection if one is allowed just five fables. Perhaps ...
The Elephant and the Pug Dog: Fables (Russian)
(Gos. izd-vo detskoĭ lit-ry Ministerstva prosveshchenii͡a RSFSRState Publishing House of Children's Literature, 1959)
This 16-page pamphlet for children contains Krylov's poetry for six fables: The Elephant and the Dog; The Swan, the Pike, and the Crab; The Monkey and the Spectacles; The Monkey and the Mirror; FC; Quartet. If one is ...
Bájky
(Mladé Letá, 1959)
From a Russian original published by Detgiz in Moskow in 1953. The T of C on 80-81 shows forty fables here. There is at least one lovely colored illustration for each fable and perhaps almost one per page. A number of ...
Elephant and Pug: Fables (Russian)
(Detsckar LiteraturaDetskai͡a Literatura, 1983)
Some 28 fables are here given two pages each. A large illustration shares space with the fable's title, and there is a continuation or echo on the right page with the text. There are some of the best Krylov illustrations ...
I.A. Krylov: Basni (Russian)
(Biblioteca Myrselki: Litographia KommunistLitografii͡a "Kommunist", 1945)
I am amazed to find a publication from Russia in 1945. My sense has been that they were hardly eating, much less publishing fable books! This is a lovely pamphlet, about 4 x 5 3/4, with twelve pages. On the multi-colored ...
I. A. Krylov Basni
(Gerion Publishing, 2003)
This is a simple small-format book of fables for children. As the T of C on 7 makes clear, there are twenty fables on 52 pages. Do the endpapers depict the Saint Petersburg of Krylov's day? Each fable gets from one to ...
I. A. Krylov Basni
(Drofa Pli͡usDrofa Plyus, 2004)
The first thing to strike one picking up this well-constructed children's book is the glossy appliques on the green cover, with a fox, crow, and cheese highlighted at the center, and four colored circles aligning this ...