Russian Children's Book Festival opens today in London. Avid readers will acknowledge various literary works, including rare and little-known ones. Q&As, interactive programs, film screenings and charity meetings are all included in the schedule.
Boris Zahoder story There was Philip for little ones became the base for an interactive family fairytale. An artist Katya Margolis and a writer Masha Slonim reveal to the public some secrets of a creative process. A co-founder of the Gift of Life, an actress Dina Korzun will perform Brodsky's "The Ballad of a Little Tugboat". All the profit from that event will be given to a charity.
The Pushkin House will introduce a poet Eugene Ostashevsky, who will present two diverse books. The first one, The Fire Horse: Children’s Poems by Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, and Kharms, combines Ostashevsky’s translations of Soviet-era children’s verse with illustrations from Soviet 1920s editions. The second one, The Pirate Who Does not Know the Value of Pi is a novel-in-poetry about a pirate and a parrot who try to communicate with indigenous people who do not exist on a deserted island.
Rossotrudnichestvo hosts in their London office the first screening of Private Pioneer (Chestnoe Pionerskoe) by Alexander Karpilovsky. The film script is based on the book written by Mikhail Seslavinsky, a bibliophile and a current Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications.
For the full list of events please refer to the Russianchildrensworld website.
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