The Twelve Clever Brothers and Other Fools: Folktales from Russia

by Mirra Ginsburg

Fourteen traditional folktales from the different peoples of Russia featuring both clever and silly fools.

Genres: Childrens

92 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Mirra Ginsburg was a Jewish Russian-American translator of Russian literature, a collector of folk tales and a children's writer. Born in Bobruisk (then part of the Russian Empire, now part of modern-day Belarus) in 1909, she moved with her family to Latvia, then to Canada, before they settled in the United States. Although she won praise for her translations of adult literature, including the Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov and We (1972) by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, she is perhaps most celebrated for her contributions to children's literature. She collected and translated a vast array of folktales from the Russian tradition, as well as Siberian and Central Asian traditions. Ginsburg died in 2000.

Reviews

[Ninja · Rating 3 out of 5]

About a dozen very short, simple folk stories from around Russia.