Dawn Casey
Autore di The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
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Fonte dell'immagine: via Nosy Crow
Opere di Dawn Casey
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- England, UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Utenti
- 845
- Popolarità
- #30,259
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 44
- ISBN
- 189
- Lingue
- 22
This story, which is often erroneously presented as a traditional Russian folktale, has been presented in a number of other picture book versions, including Ruth Robbins and Nicolas Sidjakov's Caldecott Medal-winning Baboushka and the Three Kings, Charles Mikolaycak's Babushka: An Old Russian Folktale, Arthur Scholey and Helen Cann's Baboushka: A Christmas Folktale from Russia, and Elena Pasquali and Lucia Mongioj's The Tale of Baboushka: A Traditional Christmas Story. I say erroneously because apparently this story does not have its roots in Russian lore, and does not actually reflect a Russian tradition involving a holiday gift-giver. The story is very similar to traditional folktales from Italy (see Tomie dePaola's The Legend of Old Befana), as well as the Dominican Republic (see Julia Alvarez & Ruddy Núñez' El mejor regalo del mundo: La Leyenda De La Vieja Belen / The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belen), but I have it from reliable sources that there is no Russian variant of the story. Rather, this Russified version of the tale comes from American author Edith M. Thomas' 1907 poem Babushka (A Russian Legend), taken from her collection, Children of Christmas. I am unsure as to Thomas' sources, but apparently there was also a play based upon her poem.
In any case, although not actually a Russian tale, I have retained this on my "Russian folklore" shelf, simply because it is so often described and cataloged that way, and because it is of interest, I think, to those interested in the subject. Leaving all that aside, I found this version by British author/illustrator team Dawn Casey and Amanda Hall quite lovely, and I enjoyed reading the story, and perusing the soft, pastel illustrations, done in watercolor and crayon. Although I cannot recommend it as a folktale, I do recommend it to those seeking Christmas fairy tales for younger children.… (altro)