Childlit

[Lauren Leighton]

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Charles Mills
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:50 AM
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Subject: Re: Childlit





Charles: Thank you. You're a peach and so is chudesnaya Genevra.

Dear Lauren (and list),

With regard to children's literature:

Eloise Boyle and Genevra Gerhart (eds.)'s brand new The Russian Context
(Slavica Press, 2001) a chapter by Valentina Zaitseva on just this sort of
thing: the kind of literature every Russian can be assumed to know from
childhood on up, including foreign authors.  I imagine this is only the
first
of many e-mails to make reference to this book as the answer to all our ills
in
the future, and highly recommend it to everyone.  It does for "high" culture
what The Russian's World did for "low", and comes with a CD (readings,
music,
songs, paintings, photographs, sound bites, etc.) to boot.  Get yours while
they're still piping hot!  (This is not a paid endorsement, although I wish
it
were--hint hint.)

Sincerely,

Charles Mills
Knox College

Lauren Leighton wrote:

> I would appreciate any and all recommendations of appropriate readings in
> English translation of Russian children's literature (skazki, byliny,
Krylov
> Chukovsky, Marshak. . . .) The recommendations are for American families
who
> do not know Russian, have adopted Russian children, and wish to do what
they
> can to encourage and, as far as possible, develop their children's
knowledge
> of and connection with their native culture. I would also appreciate any
> advice you might give me that I may pass on to these parents. Surely there
> must be something for them comparable to Lynn Visson's Wedded Strangers
for
> Russian-American marrieds. Thank you.
>
> Lauren G. Leighton

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