The War in Ukraine, Part One: A Yellow Butterfly Interview with Oleksandr Shatokhin

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. We now find ourselves at the anniversary of that war, and so for the next two days I’ll be featuring posts that discuss that war and the children’s books that have come out of it.

When Yellow Butterfly by Oleksandr Shatokhin was first released it received multiple starred reviews and raves from journals, like Kirkus calling it, “Provocative, powerful, breathtakingly beautiful,” ...