Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Anna Krushelnitskaya and Dmitri Manin
  • Part I: Poetry
  • Zinaida Aleksandrova
  • My Teddy Bear (1940)
  • Agniya Barto
  • Molly Made of Rubber (1930)
  • Me and Tamara (1933)
  • Chatterbox (1934)
  • Toys (1936)
  • Lovely Lyuba (1945)
  • Valentin Berestov
  • Hide-and-Seek (1963)
  • Sit-and-Read (1963)
  • At Play (1966)
  • Roosters (1966)
  • Sick Doll (1966)
  • Black Ice (1969)
  • Sparrows (1971)
  • Yelena Blaginina
  • Let's Sit Still (1940)
  • Kornei Chukovsky
  • Gottascrub (1923)
  • Squiggly Wiggly (1923)
  • Zizzy Lizzy the Fly (1924)
  • The Wondertree (1924)
  • Old Theodora's Trouble and Horror (1926)
  • Daniil Kharms
  • Liar (1930)
  • What Was That? (1940)
  • Samuil Marshak
  • The Tale of a Silly Mousie (1923)
  • Who Is Who at the Zoo (1923)
  • Scatterbrain (1930)
  • Where the Sparrow Had Lunch (1934)
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • What Is Good and What Is Bad (1925)
  • What to Be? (1929)
  • Sergei Mikhalkov
  • Mimosa (1935)
  • What's New with You? (1935)
  • Part II: Prose
  • Arkadii Gaidar
  • Tale of a Great Military Secret and a Brave Boy Whose Word Was Firm (1933)
  • Viktor Dragunsky
  • What I Love (1960)
  • . . . And What I Hate! (1960)
  • All Secrets Come to Light (1961)
  • He's Alive and He Glows (1964)
  • Valentin Katayev
  • The Seven-Petal Flower (1940)
  • The Pipe and the Jug (1940)
  • L. Panteleev
  • Honest Word (1941)
  • Part III: Practitioners' Notes on Translating Soviet Children's Literature
  • Kid Lit Not Split by a Colon / Anna Krushelnitskaya
  • I Am Running, Running, Running, and I Cannot, Cannot Stop!"": Meter in Translation / Dmitri Manin
  • Part IV: Scholarly Essays
  • To Keep and to Expand: The Canon of Soviet Children's Literature in Contemporary Publishing in Russia / Svetlana Maslinskaya
  • In the Interlude: The Search for Form and Method in Early Soviet Children's Poetry / Serguei Alex. Oushakine
  • Agniia Barto's Fun Rhymes: Lost Toys, Torn Paws, and Emotional Maturation / Marina Balina
  • People's Stories for the Kids: Folklore in Soviet Children's Literature / Sibelan Forrester
  • Baa-baa People's Sheep: On the Adventures of English Children's Poetry in Soviet Literature / Ainsley Morse and Dmitri Manin
  • Bibliography
  • Biographies
  • Index