Quick and dirty translation, part 3. See also, part 1, Fur Seals and part 2, Sea Birds.
На Командорах [Na Komandorakh] On the Commander Islands. Author: Gennady Snegirev. Artist: M. Miturich. Izdatel’stvo “Malish”. Publisher “Little One”. For older preschoolers. A print run of 350,000 in 1975. Cost, 16 kopecks. Read More
Are you familiar with Perm? No? I’m not surprised. I’ve only heard of it because I’ve read Tom Holt’s comic fantasy novel Who’s Afraid of Beowulf?, in which one of the characters gets a lot of ribbing for having gone to Perm. It’s on the western side of Urals, near Ekaterinburg. Maybe not exactly Siberia in my American mind, but pretty darn close. A place I don’t spend much time thinking about, and a place I didn’t expect to have a pumpkin festival.
But they do!
ТыкваDay [Tykva = pumpkin] 2013 was September 12-15, in Gorky Park. (Not the Gorky Park in Moscow, the Gorky Park in Perm.) Read More
In writing Sobel’s Skin, the first of the Isobel the Bear-Eater series, I’ve spent a fair amount of time on research. I have a youtube playlist of “Isobel the Bear-Eater – references” , plus a Pinterest board. Many are cultural references, but some of the most helpful are the sounds of nature. It’s a little odd, to be writing things down on paper [er, screen] and needing to know what they sound like. Fortunately, for things I haven’t encountered myself or which I can’t remember well, there’s always the youtubes.* Read More