#100bookpact
Book Title: Mashenka Author: Agnia Barto Translated from the Russian by Avril Pyman Drawings by Willi Trubkovich Publisher: Progress Publishers 1976 Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics My Rating: ***** 1/100 MASHENKA by Agnia Barto With this book my 6yo son + 3yo son (Together known as 'Udhishu'!) + I have set off to complete the # 100bookpact . This book is a Russian publication- a 1980 EDITION! So it basically means this book has been in existence even before I was born. The whole of December carries the mood of Christmas for me.(Its also my birthday and hence the celebrational mood is in an overdrive! Teehee.... ) So what better time than this to let my children-Udhishu, inherit this book? I clearly remember Pa gifting me this poetry book among a huge pile of other great books for my third or fourth birthday and then mum would pick out one book for me and read from it. *Nostalgia* I am immense...