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Butterfinger

The Tale of the Firebird | Gennady Spirin

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Fascinating art. I spent the whole morning studying the art. Just mesmerizing. #ChildrensClassicRead @TheBookHippie

tpixie Yes! I had that edition as well!! 5mo

TheBookHippie It‘s just stunning!! 4mo

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tpixie

The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales | Boris Vasil?evich Zvorykin, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

While reading The Tale of The Firebird for #ChildrensClassicRead2025 , I came across the Russian fairytale that one of my favorite books, The Snowchild is based upon!
I love a literary surprise!
What Serendipity! 🇷🇺🤍💙❤️ 🇷🇺

TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie Oh how lovely!!!!! 5mo

tpixie @TheBookHippie 🤍 ⛄️ 🤍 5mo

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tpixie

Tale of the Firebird | Gennady Spirin

This is interesting!
The illustrator is a master of Russian decorative art, one of the last most impressive artists in the great Russian tradition of book illustration. He left Russia after the Revolution & settled in Paris. He translated 4 Russian fairytales into French, writing them out in beautiful calligraphy & illustrating them on heavy vellum pages
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#ChildrensClassicRead2025

TheBookHippie

tpixie which he then bound in red Moroccan leather embossed with Russian motifs. It was a gift to his employer at a publishing house in gratitude for a new life. It was brought to the attention of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who edited it & published it with illustrations reproduced from the original art. She also wrote the Introduction. (edited) 5mo

MariaW I have an older version at home. It is well-thumbed, but very dear. 5mo

tpixie @MariaW lovely 🥰 5mo

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Velvetfur That sounds fantastic! I've stacked it, thank you! 5mo

tpixie @Velvetfur 🐦‍🔥 🐦‍🔥 🐦‍🔥 5mo

TheBookHippie I just love this. 5mo

tpixie @TheBookHippie 🐦‍🔥🧡❤️🐦‍🔥 5mo

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tpixie

Tale of the Firebird | Gennady Spirin

After cleaning the house I‘m going to settle down a bit and read June‘s #ChildrensClassicRead2025
I have 2 physical books & one ebook.
I also am going to read about Baba Yaga that‘s included in the ebook.

TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie Yay!!!! 5mo

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LitsyEvents

Tale of the Firebird | Gennady Spirin

repost for @TheBookHippie:

June #CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2025

Let us see what versions of this tale we can find!

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Afanasyev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarevitch_Ivan,_the_Firebird_and_the_Gray_Wolf

So sorry my month has been a little busy!!! But here is next months read!!!

TheBookHippie ♥️ 6mo

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JenniferEgnor

The Little Snowgirl: An Old Russian Tale | Carolyn Croll

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I love the Russian folktale of The Snegurochka, and that‘s what this book is about. Illustrated by the beloved Tomie dePaola, this version has a different ending. If you know anything about pagan lore and teaching, you‘ll see the similarities here to such figures as the Green Man, Oak King, Holly King, Callieach, and more. This is one of my favorite folktales and I plan on getting the Russian versions as well for their art and linguistics.

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Suet624

The Little Snowgirl: An Old Russian Tale | Carolyn Croll

Not sure why I feel compelled to follow up on my last post about shoveling with this information, but please humor me. 🥴🤪. A big old 12-18” of snow and high winds for two days.

Butterfinger It was a good thing you cleared off your roofs. Stay safe and warm. 9mo

Suet624 @Butterfinger thanks! As long as the wind doesn‘t knock out our electricity it should be a lovely few days. 9mo

AmyG Wow! We are getting snow, too. Just got pulled out of a snow bank. Stay home. Stay safe. 9mo

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Suet624 @AmyG yikes! I hate getting stuck. YOU stay home and stay safe 😊 9mo

Luke-XVX Someone‘s gonna have arms as big as Arnie…. 9mo

Suet624 @Luke-XVX hahaha. 9mo

Leftcoastzen Yikes ! 9mo

ChaoticMissAdventures I live in a town where snow in the forecast shuts everything down, I can't imagine this 😂. We had 2 days of snow this week and I haven't left my house. You snow people are a different breed! Hope you stay warm and snug. 9mo

Suet624 @ChaoticMissAdventures I remember when I lived in Tennessee and once there was a thin layer of ice on the roads that stopped everyone for several days. So I get it. I pay extra for studded tires now and shovel throughout a snowstorm so I don't have to get stuck with shoveling all 12 inches in one go. :). Where do you live? 9mo

ChaoticMissAdventures @Suet624 I live in Portland Oregon, and we get snow every year usually once and no one is prepared! I have lived in snowier places but people here are super dangerous driving, there was a 100 cat pile up on Thursday, so I just don't leave the house (super lucky I can work from home) Ice is the real danger! 9mo

Suet624 @ChaoticMissAdventures that‘s wild. I thought Portland got a good amount of snow. And a 100 car pileup? That‘s nuts! 9mo

AkashaVampie U and me don't live too too car from each other. I'm in Plattsburgh, NY 9mo

AkashaVampie I meant far... not car 9mo

Jeg Wow wow. 9mo

kspenmoll Sue, thinking of you- hope hope you din‘t lose power. 💕 9mo

sarahbarnes Wow. Hope you‘re staying safe. 9mo

Suet624 @AkashaVampie You're right! We could practically wave to each other.. :)
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Suet624 @Jeg In some ways it's nice - it's so old school Vermont to have snow up past your head. 9mo

Suet624 @kspenmoll Thanks Katherine. So far so good. The high winds haven't started yet but we are overwhelmed by the snow right now. 9mo

Suet624 @sarahbarnes Besides snow shoveling, all is good. Definitely not driving . 9mo

marleed Stay warm and safe. We are due to get significant snow this Tuesday and Wednesday. I‘m hoping I get a chance to shovel in doses but unlikely as I watch my 2-yo grandson on weekdays. But I‘m hopeful this will be our last hurrah for significant snow this season 🤞 9mo

AkashaVampie @Suet624 my hubby works over in VT. So he probably drives by u all the time. He works for Performance Food Group as an overnight truck driver. He is working today in all the shit. 9mo

Jeg Sue I have some vague memories of high snow when we lived in North Swanzey near Keene NH. Not being able to go to school. We caught a bus which took us to a new school Mt Caesar . 9mo

JenniferEgnor I ordered this book and it just came in the post today. I love this story and didn‘t know Tomie dePaola had done a book for this…thank you for this post/tag!!! 9mo

Suet624 @JenniferEgnor how funny! I know nothing about the book! But I‘m really happy for you. (edited) 9mo

JenniferEgnor @Suet624 it‘s the story of The Snegurochka! Russian folk tale similar to the old pagan stories about the changing seasons and their various figures (green man, holly and oak king, etc) 9mo

Suet624 @JenniferEgnor wonderful! 9mo

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Suet624

The Little Snowgirl: An Old Russian Tale | Carolyn Croll

Over 5,000 lbs. of snow had to be pulled off the upper roof to the porch roof and then 3 of us shoveled the porch roof to the ground. That pile on the ground is up to my nose. And a nor‘easter will start tomorrow. I feel like I‘ve been shoveling for weeks. This weekend it will be just me, the books and watching the snow fall.

Aims42 🤯🤯🤯🤯 omg! You must have arms of steel by now!! 9mo

Suet624 @Aims42 I‘m pooped. 9mo

Aims42 @Suet624 You‘ve earned a restful night!! 9mo

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Suet624 I just noticed those top three windows have all different shades. I never noticed that before! 9mo

TiredLibrarian @Suet624 It's about the same in my neck of the woods in upstate NY. It just won't give us a break! 9mo

Suet624 @TiredLibrarian oh, yes, I imagine we have the exact same weather. 9mo

TheBookHippie Looks like home ❄️ 9mo

AmyG Holy Cow! 9mo

Jas16 Living somewhere it never it snows, I cannot even fathom this. I often wish it would snow in San Francisco but none of us could handle it. 9mo

LeahBergen Yikes! It‘s snowing here today in my part of Canada but nothing like that! 9mo

Suet624 @Jas16 It‘s so beautiful when it comes down but as it adds up, I can be super heavy to shovel. This year was the first year we‘ve had to rake the upper roof. Usually it just slides right off and I just shoveled the flat roof. I kept being afraid that the roof would collapse on me. 9mo

Suet624 @LeahBergen Tomorrow is when our big storm starts, so I wanted to be sure to get that snow off the roof. Another 10 inches wasn‘t going to be a good thing. 😳 9mo

tpixie @Suet624 I‘ve never thought about having to shovel the snow off the roof!!! Amazing job! I bet you are exhausted 🥱 Glad you are safe. 🩵 ⛄️ 🩵 9mo

Suet624 @tpixie thank you! I‘ve noticed that on our town‘s forum lots of people are asking for help raking their roofs. Something about the weather this winter has made the snow stick to metal roofs, which is really uncommon. I‘ve been here 11 years and I have never had to do it before. (edited) 9mo

dabbe Wowza! Glad you are safe, you powerful woman, you! ❣️💪🏻❣️ 9mo

tpixie @Suet624 very interesting good luck with the next batch of snow! 9mo

kspenmoll Here I was worried all January about no snow! We have some, but nothing in comparison- only 6 is expected tomorrow but also lots of ice/sleet which makes for power outages & falling tree limbs. Snow up to your nose!!!!! Glad your roof is safe & you are bundled up.💕💕💕 9mo

Hooked_on_books WOW! 🤯 9mo

BarbaraBB That must have been quite the job 😳 but it‘s probably a relief you did it. You deserve a book filled weekend and hopefully some raise in temperatures afterwards! 💕 9mo

Deblovestoread The weight of snow is no joke. Shoveling or caving in a roof. You deserve a peaceful restful weekend! 9mo

squirrelbrain Glad you‘re OK + good luck with the next storm. 9mo

Cathythoughts Enjoy your book weekend 🤍 9mo

Jeg Shovelling all that snow you will be very fit! 9mo

DogMomIrene @Suet624 Interesting about snow sticking to the metal roof. I haven‘t heard this one before, but my research into steel roofs isn‘t super deep. We‘re years away from converting🤞🏼 Hope you‘re well rested now! 9mo

Suet624 @BarbaraBB More snow, so more shoveling this weekend, but it's gorgeous. 9mo

Suet624 @Deblovestoread You're right about the weight. The snow on the roof wasn't fluffy - it was solid and heavy. And no joke. 9mo

Suet624 @squirrelbrain @cathythoughts Thanks to you both. 9mo

Suet624 @DogMomIrene Generally speaking, the metal roof has been fine. Someone on our local forum said he'd had a metal roof for 43 years and his was completely covered too. It was the first time he had experienced it in all that time. 9mo

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