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In the Van
Samuil MarshakA travelling lady sends her little dog as a luggage, and gets very surprised at the end of her voyage.
Hail to Mail
Samuil MarshakA certified letter follows its intended recipient all over the world as the postal service attempts to catch up to him.
The merry starlings
Samuil MarshakIn this Russian nursery rhyme, forty-four starlings keep house and have fun together.
Baggage
Samuil MarshakA lady traveling by train from Kiosk to Tver checks a suitcase, a hatbox, a couch, a painting, a package, a pouch, and last but not least, one cute little pooch.
Baggage
Samuil MarshakA woman checks a long list of items into the baggage car on the train, but when she gets to her destination, one of the things that she gets back is very different than what she checked.
The Absentminded Fellow
Samuil MarshakAdapted from a series of stories created in Russian literature seventy years ago, the celebrated title character bumbles his way from London to Birmingham, wearing his cat as a hat and mistaking his shirt for his pants.
The Circus and Other Stories
Samuil MarshakCollects four stories, including "The Circus," in which rhyming text describes different circus performances.
An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: 1801-1953
PreviewSamuil (Samuel) Marshak (1887-1964), poet, children's author, and translator, was born in Voronezh in 1887. His father worked at soap-making factories as a foreman. The philanthropist and scholar Baron David Gunzburg (1857-1910) took ...
Silly Little Mouse and Other Poems
Samuel MarshakCONTENTS: The Silly Little Mouse Furry-Purry Pussy-Cat Henny Penny and the Ten Ducklings Zoo Babies A Little House Stood on a Hill Samuel Marshak was born in 1887.
Teaching Russian Studies
Patricia WinpennyFollow-up Read The Month Brothers, retold by Samuel Marshak. This Slavic tale comes from Bohemia (now a part of the Czech Republic). Russian writer Samuel Marshak (1887- 1964) adapted it for a children's play at Moscow Art Theater ...
Twelve Months: A Fairy-Tale
S. MarshakHe inculcates respect for the man who knows his job, respect for creative work.Marshak also wrote several plays based on Russian fairy tales and designed for the juvenile stage, including Twelve Months.
Through the magic curtain: theatre for children, ...
Miriam MortonSamuel Marshak and His "Children's Town" Theatre My association with Samuel Marshak began in Krasnodar,1 where he initiated what was for those times an enormously important project for the benefit of bereft children. He did this not ...
Play and passion in Russian fine art
Yevgenia Petrova1936 Illustration to Samuel Marshak's book Our Detachment Graphite pencil on paper. 35.2x31.7 PC- 1264 Alexei Pakhomov Border-Guard Children Dancing. 1936 Illustration to Samuel Marshak's book Our Detachment Graphite pencil on ...
El perrito creció
Samuel MarshakA mishap at the train station exchanges a lady traveler's Pekingese puppy for a Great Dane.
Маршак
Матвей ГейзерSamuel Marshak Jakovljevic, a talented poet, translator, playwright, novelist, a distinguished public figure, and was the architect of the Soviet children''s literature. (Internet).
A Harvest of Russian Children's Literature
Full viewA Gift of Rhymes and Rhythms from Russian Poets for the Very Young Translated by The Silly Little Mouse Samuel Marshak Margaret Wettlin 17 Henny Penny and the Ten Ducklings 19 Snooks 23 Two Cats 26 The Cockroach Kornei ...
Le grand nigaud de Portobello
Samuel MarshakA Portobello, habite un grand nigaud. Jamais sûr de rien, il multiplie les erreurs et les gaffes. Une histoire sous forme de comptine.
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