Our interview with edexlive, which is the higher education and youth news website of The New Indian Express.
Article publish date: 1st September, 2021
This day featured a memorable photoshoot – thanks to Mr. S Senbagapandiyan! Read full article here.
Photo Credit: edexlive.com
In this spread, you can find books from our categories of Picture Stories, Science books and children’s Novels.
Photo Credit: edexlive.com
Inside our office & store.
An excerpt from the article:
On a sailing ship, when an in-house monkey flees after taking a boy’s hat, it leaves it on one of the spokes of the ship jutting out towards the sea. In an attempt to retrieve the hat, the boy falls down only to be rescued later by one of the sailors.
The above story is a supremely abridged version of a story penned by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, specifically for children. The book we hold in our hand is called L Tolstoy: Stories for Children and is perhaps the first Telugu edition of it. “Tolstoy, while translating Aesop’s Fables, famously trimmed out all those lines alluding to the moral of the story. What lesson they wanted to learn from the story, or not, was left to the children,” says the very knowledgeable Suresh, who has a personal collection of about 150 children’s books from the Soviet Era from publishers like Raduga Publishers and Progress Publishers.
The beloved ‘Tolstoy Balala Kathalu’ – is currently on it’s 8th reprint!
Browse our Soviet Children’s Books tag for more.
