Tiger and Girl
Folktales of the Amur Week at TechnoChitlins – Gennady Pavilshin, Illus.
I’m going to do something a little different this time. Folktales of the Amur is an illustrated “childrens” book, first published in the Soviet Union, consisting of old folk tales of the Asian people living along the Amur River in eastern Siberia. There is almost no information about the author (Dmitriĭ Nagishkin) or the illustrator (Gennady Pavilshin) available online- but there are many rave reviews of the book, especially the 1980 English translation, still available on Amazon.
What I love are the illustrations. I think you will, too.
Thanks to Loreto Bello Gude (@loretobgude) on Twitter for the pointer to these.
To Appomattox Court House
“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.”
– Robert E. Lee
Parapet
“I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? ”
– Abraham Lincoln in response to General McClellan.
Charge!
“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”
– ‘Fighting’ Joe Hooker
All the young men, 6/6/1944
On the Line
“General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys? ”
