Ookie-Spooky

by Mirra Ginsburg, Emily Arnold McCully

Masha draws many familiar things in her new drawing book but also something unusual.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published November 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

[Michele Bushby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this book while going through boxes of stuff from my childhood. I loved it then, and it is still a fun story to read to little kids!