Mishmash

by Korney Chukovsky, Francesca Yarbusova (Illustrations)

Mishmash is the poem for little children about a funny mix-up that happened among the animals.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1926

About the author

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Russian: Корней Иванович Чуковский) was one of the most popular children's poets in the Russian language. His catchy rhythms, inventive rhymes and absurd characters have invited comparisons with the American children's author Dr. Seuss. Chukovsky's poems Tarakanishche ("The Monster Cockroach"), Krokodil ("The Crocodile"), Telefon ("The Telephone") and Moydodyr ("Wash-'em-Clean") have been favorites with many generations of Russophone children. Lines from his poems, in particular Telefon, have become universal catch-phrases in the Russian media and everyday conversation. He adapted the Doctor Dolittle stories into a book-length Russian poem as Doktor Aybolit ("Dr. Ow-It-Hurts"), and translated a substantial portion of the Mother Goose canon into Russian as Angliyskiye Narodnyye Pesenki ("English Folk Rhymes"). He was also an influential literary critic and essayist. (from: wikipedia)

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Reviews

[Jo Oehrlein]

Rhyming story translated from the Russian.
A bunch of young animals decide to say different sounds rather than the ones they're supposed to.
And then they started acting like each other -- fishes walking, toads flying, etc.
A rabbit tries to get control, but no....

Then the foxes accidentally start a fire.
Everyone comes together to fight the fire.
And the animals return to their normal sounds and actions, just in time for bedtime.

[Lisa Mcbroom]

It's like the author was on acid or in the land of bizarro.... From animals getting their voices mixed up to foxes playing with matches and setting the sea on fire...... Weird!!!!!!!!