russia

In Siberia, Fedya the frog convinces a flock of Squawk ducks to give her a ride when they fly south, but her determination to let people know the flight was her idea nearly costs Fedya her life. Includes notes about folk tales and about Russia.

Cowardly scholar Boris attempts to win the heart of the beautiful Sonja, a firebrand anti-Napoleon radical.

Galya, a merchant's daughter with two unkind sisters, goes in search of her love Finist the falcon, who is sometimes a bird and sometimes a fine young man.

When Prince Ivan sets out to find the Firebird for his father the tsar, he must complete a series of tasks before obtaining the Firebird and winning the hand of a beautiful princess.

Moose grows an enormous cabbage, sure to win a prize at the fair, but needs the help of all his friends to load it onto a truck in this Alaskan version of a Russian folktale.

An elderly couple who long for a child build a snow child which comes to life and makes them very happy-- until the coming of spring when the days become too warm for her to stay.

Little Isabelle surprises her family with her unique way of helping a carrot seed grow and of getting the huge vegetable from the ground. Includes a recipe for carrot pudding.

Discusses the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States and how it led to the creation of NASA.

Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon---Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius gone mad, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry, celebrity, and notoriety. With one grand leap off the stage at the 1909 premiere of the Ballets Russes's inaugural season, Nijinsky became an overnight sensation and the century's first superstar, in the days before moving pictures brought popular culture to the masses. Perhaps the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, Nijinsky captured audiences with his sheer animal magnetism and incredible skill.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Russian composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.