Ukraine List

Well, for those who have seen the BBC travel shows that feature Michael Palin, he is back with a travel series called Michael Palin’s New Europe. The series starts on 16 September on BBC One and the show covering Ukraine will air on 7 October. You can get the schedule on the BBC website or […]

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Well, by ’scarry’ I mean the children’s author and illustrator, Richard Scarry. I’m always interested in multi-lingual children’s books (as I have a toddler), and this adaptation of The Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry into Ukrainian (and French) is very interesting indeed.

Richard Scarry was a prolific children’s book author from the United States […]

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I noticed on eBay that a few historic photos from the Steinbeck novel, A Russian Journal, were up for auction.

In 1947 John Steinbeck traveled to the Soviet Union with the celebrated war photographer, Robert Capa, who just a few short years before had been photographing Omaha beach during D-Day. They subsequently released A Russian Journal […]

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The Ukrainian-American illustrator, Yaroslava Surmach-Mills, was born in New York in 1925. Her father, Myron Surmach, was born in Galicia in 1893, but later emigrated to Pennsylvania and then to New York. In America Myron became involved in everything from music, publishing, and books and started a Ukrainian book and music store called Surma that […]

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The BBC has an interesting (short) piece on the first photographer, Anatoly Rasskazov, on the scene at Chernobyl. Some of his film he shot just came out black from the radiation and graphite, but some other rolls made it with only some clouding and discoloration.

Photo from BBC 
After taking the photos his rolls of film were […]

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I have taken a short break from posting for personal/relaxation reasons. During that time, I started reading a book that I have had on my shelf for quite some time called Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik. Adam Gopnik is speaking in Washington, DC tomorrow, and I wanted to see him, so I thought […]

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A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine recommended Everything Is Illuminated, which is a comedy directed by Liev Schrieber. The film came out in 2005 and is based upon a novel by the same name. Anyhow, I thought I would look into it a bit more, but let me first say that I […]

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