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is a simple, yet delightful book foryear olds, It has charming little stories about Andrewshek and Erminka and various scrapes often with animals, The illustrations are charming. BCRI loved this book as a kid it was taken out of the library at least once every year Love these stories and so does my kid! And now I'm looking for a recipe for poppy seed cakes.
Somehow, I thought of this book today, one I read when Eisenhower was in the White House, though it was written in! It is the most charming tale of a mischievous little boy, Andrewshek, his sister and his auntie Katushka.
The illustrations are bright and delightful, Anyone with young children should find a copy, Mine was given to me by my paternal grandparents inand It is still by my side today,short stories in this book, They remind me of ones out of Russia, Auntie Katushka has always trouble with Andrewshek, a little boy who does not like to mind, An animal plays prominently in each story, My granddaughter and I liked these alot, I remember my mom reading this to me when I was little, Myyear old got it for Christmas and we just finished reading it together, She loved it and wanted to start reading it again as soon as we finished, A childhood favourite I love it still! One of my favorite books as a little girl, Brett found me a copy and gave to me for Christmas this year!! This is one of the books I think of most when I think about what was on our childhood bookshelves.
It's a Withdrawn book from the library we used to go to, and while I don't remember the exact specifics as to how it ended

up in my mother's possession I want to say that the librarian liked us so much that she gave it to us, or maybe we bought it at a book sale at the library, I do remember it being in the house.
My mother would read it periodically, and thanks to this book I have an unnatural affection for feather beds and poppy seed cakes.


This is a nice chapter book, beginning with Auntie Katushka and little Andrewshek who, typical for his age, ignores all of Auntie Katushka's warnings.
The neighbors have a little girl, Erminka, who is the focus of another couple of chapters her story is more about the red boots she wears than about the feather bed of Andrewshek's world.
But in the end the two come together to have a tea party with the poppy seed cakes that Auntie Katushka prepares.


It's a touching story with bright illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham, And when I smell the book, it smells just the way I remember all of the books from that library smelling.
That's just comforting. What is one to do when a goat, a dog, a kitten, and two chickens invite themselves to afternoon tea Why, one allows them to sit at the table and eat poppy seed cakes and strawberry jam!

Written in, this little recollection of life in the old country which appears to be Russia is a very simple collection of eight stories, each connecting to the previous story.


There is Auntie Katushka,

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who has come from the old country so she can visit her little nephew, Andrewshek, who doesn't always listen and has a proclivity for getting into trouble.


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The local farm animals are always getting into the picture, including the Green Goose, who loves his poppy seed cakes a bit too much.


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The author, Margery Clark, was actually a composite of two librarians, both of whom wrote children's books.
The text is easy for children and dare I say, fun, The technicolor woodcuts are by Maud and Miska Petersham, which are delightful for very young eyes, While I enjoyed this, it's best for nursery age children, who will delight in repeating the names over and over.


I must admit that I completed this quickly but then looked at it again, just for the simple fun to be had with the old country.


Book Season Spring red boots The chapters are very short, and heavily beautifully! illustrated, The book is aboutpages but a quick read, I love the fullpage illustrations but I'm not particularly wild about the border illustrations as the yellow just isn't appealing to me page after page and the animals in the borders look rather odd.
I'm not knowledgeable enough about Russian folklore and related art to know if this is traditional style, We begin with stories about a boy named Andrewshek and then move to some stories about a girl named Erminka before they converge.


The stories about Andrewshek involve him being a distracted little boy who doesn't do what his auntie asks him to do, and the various animals that come to take advantage of his carelessness.
He's not doing anything very naughty, just typical boisterous kid behavior like bouncing on the bed or swinging on the garden gate.
. . but he doesn't watch the food like his aunt asks him to and I'm not sure what the "moral" of these stories are as, despite his behavior, things always works out nicely for Andrewshek though usually not so nicely for the animals, especially in the case of the goose! Andrewshek has no great heroic moments as it's usually it's the auntie who figures a way out of the problem.
I was surprised that the animals talk as I hadn't been expecting that based on the way the story began.
I enjoyed the stories but I'm not sure they impressed me overmuch,

Erminka has her own story for three chapters which involve her wearing the wonderful new shiny red boots that were meant for her little brother but are too big for him yet.
The little red boots lead to trouble every time, First, she wants to show the tomatoes her boots then she slips in the garden and squishes some tomatoes and cucumbers.
Such a darling illustration of Erminka showing her shiny red boots to the shiny red tomatoes, though! Then, she visits the market and opens the chicken crate with the toe of her boot and they escape.
Finally, she goes to the pond and slips on the mud and gets the boots and a duck all muddy.
She doesnt mean to do these things but I still think it rather unfair that at the end of all this the father says he will buy her some new shoes to replace the muddy ones.
Shouldnt the little brother get new boots since big sister ruined the ones that were to be his No mention of poppy seed cakes here.


In the final chapters, Erminka and her mother and little brother go to stay with her uncle while her father is in the old country and the uncle happens to live next door to Andrewshek so the two children meet and their stories converge.
They enjoy a few tea parties one with some rather amusing guests and play with wooden dolls, Oh, and the poppy seed cakes are served at the tea party, so that ties back with the beginning.


Overall, I wouldnt say this was a favorite for me but I did enjoy reading it and many of the illustrations were lovely.

Excerpts and/or reprints included in sitelinkStories And Fables, Naughty Andrewshek and Erminka, the feather bed, the red topped boots, the geese, ducks and chickens and the little poppyseed cakes have lost none of their charm since my mother read this book as a little girl and since she read it to her own children.
The illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham are just as good as the stories, Just read this with my youngest child and it feel like the end of an era, My mom read it to me and my siblings when we were young, and now I've read it to all of mine.


As per the tradition I started with my oldest, my youngest and I will be making poppy seed cakes in the near future to celebrate reading it together.
Delightful charming characters, talking animals, tea parties, Best of all, the illustrations are just perfect for the story, in bright, saturated colors, including yellow stencillike illustrations on each page woodcuts framing the text, along withfullcolor, fullpage illustrations and anotherblack and white fullpage illustrations.
All the pictures have bold and simple lines and all evoke old Russia at least, that's my guess, If I were an artist, I'd like to draw pictures like these!! My plan was to sell this, but I think I'll have to keep it now.
Beautiful illustrations! I remember this being in my childhood bedroom, So lucky to stumble on a used copy to share with my kids, Now there come along from time to time a book I know absolutely nothing about and today it is another member of the Everymans Childrens Classic library.


This book reads like a translated tale from Eastern Europe when in actual fact the book has more connections to America than anywhere else however to me at least it captures an age which is now long since passed.


An age of families who lived a simpler life, A life which if a family where to flourish they had to have the support of their relatives, A life where they had to make sacrifices such as working away from home and the raising of children was down to the wives and grandparent.


This book to me represents an age that now has long since passed, and although we live for the most better lives we should never turn our back on where we came from and those around up where they came from.


We should all take time to stop and enjoy the simpler pleasures and for me this book is a celebration of them.
I wonder how big this "nursery book" was I think only about the size of a child's hands, because there are lots of pages but very few words, relatively.


I think that I would have liked it when I was a child, though even then, in the 's, I would have thought it awfully oldfashioned.
Now I don't know if I can recommend it or not, Bread is not good for swans, nobody will explode if they eat too much, and children who are easily distracted must not be left alone in a situation where the consequences can be serious.


The pictures are wonderful, though, Myyear old thought it was great, I thought it was very silly, Short 'chapters' make for easy aloud reading to young children, Fun antics and talking animals, Plus, I had a blast saying 'Auntie Katushka' and 'Andrewshek' over and over again!! Tales of Andrewshek and Auntie Katushka and Erminka.
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