xiv, 474 pp. An anthology of favorite Russian poems, stories and folk tales for children, arranged in sections for three different age groups and a collection of folklore. Edited, with an introduction, by Miriam Morton, who also translated a collection of Leo Tolstoy's children's stories into English. This anthology also includes contributions by Leo Tolstoy, as well as Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, and many others, with a foreword by Ruth Hill Viguers (editor of The Horn Book Magazine), and woodcut illustrations by Vladimir Favorsky.
