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A mouse, a frog, a rabbit, a fox, a wolf, and a bear all squeeze into a lost mitten until its owner comes back to reclaim it.

A Ukranian folk tale of a lost mitten and all the forest animals that came to live in it.

A cat with a reputation for being fierce is invited to dinner by the forest animals, where a chain of accidents ensures the continuation of this erroneous belief.

A collection of thirty-three Ukrainian folktales, organized within the categories of animal tales, how and why stories, moral stories, and legends and fairy tales.

Describes the celebration of Christmas in Ukraine; includes sections on native songs, recipes, and fun-to-do crafts appropriate to the holiday.

Describes pysanky, the traditional folk craft of decorating Easter eggs as carried on by women in the Ukraine, a country on the northern edge of the Black Sea.

American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukranian woman might or might not have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis during World War II.

Describes some events in the life of Sholem Rabinowitz, the Yiddish author whose pen name was Sholom Aleichem, and who wrote stories about Jewish life in nineteenth-century Russia.