Item Summary

This poem, "Ice cream," is narrated by a group of children getting ice cream from a street vendor. A man eats so much ice cream that he turns into an enormous snow drift. The children are delighted that they can now play in the snow and go sledding at the height of summer.

Descriptive Information

Title
Мороженое / С. Маршак ; рисунки В. Лебедева.
Transliterated Title
Morozhenoe / S. Marshak ; risunki V. Lebedeva.
Call Number
Pams / NR / Cyrillic / B-002123 / 90966
NR CyrillicQ 21867
Identifier
https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/childrens/id/2314/rec/19
Publisher
[Leningrad] ; [Moskva] : Raduga, 1925.
[Ленинград] ; [Москва] : Радуга, 1925.
Language
Russian
Date Created
1925
Extent
12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Provenance
Princeton copy 2: From the Anna Bakst Benjamin Family Collection of Raduga Books
References
Lemmens & Stommels. Russian artists, page 347-348
Книга для детей 1881-1939, volume 2, page 13
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Cover title.
This book, along with "Circus," represents the beginning of a lifelong collaboration between poet Samuil Marshak and illustrator Vladimir Lebedev, and the beginning of a radically new approach to children's book design.
Chromolithographs. Stapled into self-wraps.
Publishers' advertisements at end.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ice cream, ices, etc—Juvenile poetry
Summer—Juvenile poetry
Snow—Juvenile poetry
Gluttony—Juvenile poetry
chromolithographs
poetry
illustrated books
picture books
Poetry
Illustrated works
Picture books
Chromolithographs
Publishers' advertisements

Physical Characteristics

File Count
9

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton Slavic Collections
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f22dd088-22df-42b4-bba8-646c5d497421/manifest