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🚋 This is the story of Klik and Tram, two streetcars in Saint Petersburg who separate through the day and are always happy to be reunited when their routes intersect. This book of verse for children was written by poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam. This title is a part of the Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection. 🚃 Call number: Folio PZ64.3.M36 Dv 1925 http://ow.ly/IInV30jZC1L * * * #kislakcenter #pennlibraries #rarebooks #sovietliterature #illustration #tram #streetcar #artoftheday #vintageillustration #childrensbooks #iglibraries #specialcollections

From our Soviet Russian Children's Picture Book Collection, here's a page from "Samsusam" and a translation provided by our very own conservator extraordinaire, Sibylla Benatova. This page is a poem which means: Sam lives without a worry He throws his mustache into the sea And instantaneously catches Pike, ruffе, and rockfish for a hundred years ahead. And should he feel like a second course Sam would blink with his eyelashes and a flock of birds would fly into his mouth. *** Samsusam, Leningrad ; Moskva :Raduga, [192-?] PZ64 3 A53 1920z http://ow.ly/eZTp30hlSK8 Soviet Russian Children’s Picture Book Collection *** #kislakcenter #pennlibraries #childrensbooks #rarebooks #childrensliterature #fromthestacks #sovietchildrensbooks #illustration #poetry #fineprinting #sovietliterature