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Rechenka's Eggs
Babushka, known for her exquisite hand-painted eggs, finds Rechenka, a wounded goose, and takes her home. When she's ready to try her wings again, Rechenka accidentally breaks all of Babushka's lovingly crafted eggs. But the next morning Babushka awakens to a miraculous surprise. Full color.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
March 28th 1988
by Philomel Books
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Lisa Vegan
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Recommends it for:
3-8 year olds; for Easter reading; for those who appreciate nature
Oh, so cute. This is a lovely fantasy story. It’s about a woman who paints award winning Ukrainian painted eggs. She saves a goose wounded by a hunter, and this delightful story goes from there. In order to avoid spoilers, I can’t really say much about what happens, but it’s a sweet story with a sweet ending. The illustrations of the painted eggs are wondrous, as are the illustrations of the caribou, geese, woman, the woman’s dwelling, and the festival. There’s a lovely, not too heavy handed, m...more
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Lovely Easter tale with a Russian flavor. The decorated eggs are gorgeous, and the tale of enjoying the miracles of spring is touching and timely.
When I was reading Patricia Polacco’s books, I was interested in knowing more about how Patricia Polacco studied Russian and Greek iconographic history in the Royal Melbourne Institute, which along with her interest in painting Ukrainian eggs, inspired her to create this story! “Rechenka’s Eggs” is a Russian tale by Patricia Polacco about how a talented old lady named Babushka finds an injured goose one night and she soon discovers that the goose now named Rechenka, lays eggs that are not your ...more
Abigail
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Recommends it for:
Pysanky Lovers / Anyone Looking for Good Easter Stories for Children / Patricia Polacco Fans
Known far and wide for her gorgeous pysanky - Ukrainian Easter eggs, decorated with intricate patterns, and gorgeous colors - Babushka was preparing for the great Moscow Easter Festival, when she happened upon an injured goose near her house. Naming her new anserine friend Rechenka, Babushka brought the goose home, and nursed her back to health. Then, disaster struck, and it seemed as if all of Babushka's painstaking work over the past year, in creating her pysanky, had been in vain. Was her dre...more
We are slowly making our way through Patricia Polacco's books. We picked this one out because of the gorgeously decorated eggs on the cover; we wanted to compare this story with the book The Easter Egg Farm we've recently read. The stories were very different, but have a similar plot twist that is fantastic and pretty much impossible. We most enjoyed the cultural references to Russia (like the native pronounciation of Moscow as Moskva, the religious icon, and the onion-domed buildings) and th...more
Candice
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Sophie - when she's older
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An old Russian tale of kind old woman Babushka and her beautiful painted eggs. Babushka's eggs are so beautiful that they win the competition in Moskva every year. One winter day Babushka finds an injured goose which she names Rechenka and brings into her home to nurse back to health. Rechenka lays eggs for Babushka's breakfast, but one day she jumps up on Babushka's work table, upsetting Babushka's paints and ruining her eggs. What can Rechenka do to make up for this? It's a beautifully il...more
I purchased this at Triple Oaks nursery in Franklinville, NJ. I had taken a craft lesson with the nursery to learn how to make Russian eggs. I was no good at the task, but purchased this wonderful story nonetheless.
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Polacco can tell a story. Here she spins a new spool off the old yarn of goose who laid a golden egg. Set in oldtime Russia, the babushka's kindness is rewarded. Such lovely illustrations that accompany the text!
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Polacco can tell a story. Here she spins a new spool off the old yarn of goose who laid a golden egg. Set in oldtime Russia, the babushka's kindness is rewarded. Such lovely illustrations that accompany the text!
This is a very sweet book and perfect for Easter or even an activity about birds. I used this book in my classroom when my students were learning about Ukrainian Easter eggs. They loved the ending! This book is great for asking students to make predictions as well as providing beautiful examples of Easter eggs.
Abby
Abby
I feel like this book was designed for the express purpose of prompting art lessons on pyansky, which is perfectly fine by me. I loved the art in this one -- that the faces weren't very bright or detailed but the clothing and eggs were.
This is a beautiful book! It would be great for a folk tale unit or introduction. Teachers could talk about Russia and the beautiful eggs and then have students make or color their own.
Another great book by Patricia Polacco. Her sense and appreciation for family and tradition is wonderful. Loved the illustrations.
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Story of old Russia about friendship. Contains several Russian words, recommend you read ahead of your class.
Liked the ending but didn't think there was much to story over all.
I am in love with this folksy Russian style!
Beautiful.
Patricia Polacco is of Russian/Ukrainian ancestry and loves to share her heritage with her young readers. Her story is delightful and meaninful and her illustrations perfect. As in the story, Patricia likes to paint decorative Ukrainian eggs. This would be a wonderful story to share with children before decorating Easter eggs. But in truth it's wonderful to share at any time.
Polacco's illustrations for this story are great; the folkart style is appropriate for the story and the unfilled white areas on the pages do well to showcase the bold colors of the illustrations. Prefer this verison over the other one I just finished, The Bird's Gift retold by Eric Kimmel.
beautiful pictures and an old fashioned fairy tale
Wonderful illustrations.
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