At school we put together a display of all the wonderful picture books and novels on soccer as the students became interested in the World Cup. Some of the students were discussing it and I asked them where it was being held. This led to finding out about Russia and locating it on the globe. I had just bought this lovely new book Capitals by Taraneh Ghajar Jerven and we perused the double-page spread on Moscow.
I began to wonder then how many books we would have for a display about Russia. I was surprised. We had quite a few folktales such as Firebird and Baboushka, many picture books by Patricia Polacco and then I thought of Russian writers such as Alexei Tolstoy (The Enormous Turnip) and Alexander Pushkin (The Golden Fish); musicians such as Tchiakovsky (Swan Lake and The Nutcracker), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition) Prokofiev (Peter and the Wolf); and artists such as Kandinsky, all of which we had books for and could display. See the pinterest selection here.
Welcome back! I love all the divergent thinking you have done for this topic. I found Staring Mirette and Bellini as another possible title. Also Eloise in Moscow perhaps? Your library displays are so wonderful - such a great way to bring your library books out of the shelves and expand the horizons of those lucky children.
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ReplyDeleteAyesha L. Rubio, who is Spanish, but the book was published in Australia by Five Mile Press. She also has a lovely version of The Pied Piper.
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