tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post2738271139972785915..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: DenStudiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-50027176707846124402012-03-18T21:12:57.199+01:002012-03-18T21:12:57.199+01:00Yes, Bianki’s Forest News is my great favorite, to...Yes, Bianki’s Forest News is my great favorite, too. But you did not pay enough attention to the price. 5K is five kopeek. Never mind. What is important, is the price <i>stamped</i> over it: Ft 1. One Hungarian Forint. In the 1970s, when I regularly purchased such booklets in the Gorky Bookshop, it was the price of half kilo of bread, of one ice cream, of one little plastic Soviet soldier, of a thin 16-pages school booklet, of a copy of the newspaper The People’s Liberty.Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-45099391560982319722012-03-18T21:07:31.698+01:002012-03-18T21:07:31.698+01:005K must be five thousand LOL? Priceless. That'...5K must be five thousand LOL? Priceless. That's a replica of exactly the edition I had, of 1964, illustrated by famous Yury Vasnetsov (a distant relation to the art nouveau grand). But the tale itself is much older. It has first been published in 1938 in Chizh magazine. Bianki's Forest News of 1925, with an abundance of B&W illustrations, was my absolute favorite. I suspect that he had little choice but to write for the children, having been effectively banned from most occupations because of his socialist-revolutionary past ... but he must have totally enjoyed writing for the kids!MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-47947565969113967492012-03-18T20:57:26.100+01:002012-03-18T20:57:26.100+01:00Well, once you say it: can you see the price on th...Well, once you say it: can you see the price on the back cover? :)Studiolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-33443787079248303642012-03-18T20:42:25.792+01:002012-03-18T20:42:25.792+01:00Thanks for the Fox and the Little Mouse! It was my...Thanks for the Fox and the Little Mouse! It was my first book and I still remember all the pictures :)MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-7708696791763428232012-03-18T08:37:57.642+01:002012-03-18T08:37:57.642+01:00https://plus.google.com/u/0/100146646232137568790/...https://plus.google.com/u/0/100146646232137568790/posts/Quea7fPSP5MRupert Neil Bumfreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04460239805603476978noreply@blogger.com