Reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet picture books from the 1920s and 1930s - a highpoint in the history of children's literature. Here, 250 brilliant examples of illustrations and design are complemented by some wonderful translations of poems and stories as well as texts from the victims, criminals and witnesses to the Russian revolution. Edited by Julian Rothenstein and Olga Budashevskaya. Foreword by Philip Pullman.