Fox
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Evgenii Charushin , Teremok [The cabin], 1931
Evgenii Charushin (1901-1965) was an illustrator and author, known for his children’s books on nature and animals. He said, “More than anything else, I love to depict young animals, touching in their helplessness and interesting, because within them one can already see signs of the full-grown beast.” This book is a cumulative story about a hole in an oak tree that is inhabited by a series of different animals as it gets bigger. It was published in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia at a time when children’s books became a mass media phenomenon. Over a ten-year period, almost 10,000 titles were published in several editions of up to 200,000. Many of these books took experimental approaches to storytelling, design and layout.
![Raznye Zveri [Different Beasts]](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/n83t80i6/production/4842f601d9ba1427cd6013f75b3d855946b271f9-1795x2381.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&q=75&w=1795)
Evgenii Charushin , Raznye Zveri [Different Beasts], 1931
Evgenii Charushin (1901-1965) was an illustrator and author, known for his children’s books on nature and animals. He said, “More than anything else, I love to depict young animals, touching in their helplessness and interesting, because within them one can already see signs of the full-grown beast.” This book shows a series of animals found in Russia. It was published in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) at a time when children’s books became a mass media phenomenon. Over a ten-year period, almost 10,000 titles were published in several editions of up to 200,000. Many of these books took experimental approaches to storytelling, design and layout.
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Nikolai Tyrsa, Snezhnaia kniga [The Snow Book], 1926
Nikolai Tyrsa (1887-1942) was an illustrator and designer. This book follows a hare evading a fox, only to be caught by an owl. It was published in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia at a time when children’s books became a mass media phenomenon. Over a ten-year period, almost 10,000 titles were published in several editions of up to 200,000. Many of these books took experimental approaches to storytelling, design and layout.
