From our Soviet Russian Children's Picture Book Collection, here's a page from "Samsusam" and a translation provided by our very own conservator extraordinaire, Sibylla Benatova. This page is a poem which means: Sam lives without a worry He throws his mustache into the sea And instantaneously catches Pike, ruffе, and rockfish for a hundred years ahead. And should he feel like a second course Sam would blink with his eyelashes and a flock of birds would fly into his mouth. *** Samsusam, Leningrad ; Moskva :Raduga, [192-?] PZ64 3 A53 1920z http://ow.ly/eZTp30hlSK8 Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection *** #kislakcenter #pennlibraries #childrensbooks #rarebooks #childrensliterature #fromthestacks #sovietchildrensbooks #illustration #poetry #fineprinting #sovietliterature











