Book Description
for Gamayun Tales I by Alexander Utkin
From The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
This collection of three Russian folk stories tells both three individual stories while simultaneously telling a single interconnected story. The story is narrated by a mythical winged creature and starts with the theft of an apple. This leads into the first story of a war between animals, then to the next of a man who rescues a bird, and finally to a boy tricked into servitude. Illustrations are digitally rendered with a simple color palette with the rough, but elegant, appearance of colored pencils.
According to WorldCat, these tales were all published individually by Nobrow Press before they were published as an anthology. No trace of Russian publications.
The author lives in Russia and is an illustrator, comic artist, designer and musician.
English. Originally published in UK by Nobrow Press in 2020. English translation by Lada Morozova published in the United States by Nobrow Press in N/A.
© USBBY, 2022. Used with permission.