Kak Nayti Dorozhku: Skazki. [How to Find a Road: Fairy tales].

This book consists of three fairy tales. The first one is about kids who got lost in the forest and asked wild animals how to find a forester house. The second one tells about a kite that quarreled with birds. The third is devoted to a caterpillar which became a butterfly.


These stories were illustrated by May Miturich (Miturich-Khlebnikov, 1925–2008), an artist, nephew of futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov and son of avant-garde artist Vera Khlebnikova. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where later he taught. In 2005 Mirutich was awarded the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.


The book is from the children's collection of Inna Shmeleva (1929-2020), an artist, who studied under Ely Bielutin, the founder of The New Reality artistic academy. In 1962 Shmeleva participated in the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artist at the Central Exhibition Hall (Manège) which was severely criticized by Nikita Khrushchev. This event marked the end of the period called as the Khrushchev Thaw.

First edition.

OCLC locates two copies of this edition: in the Stanford University Library and the University of Oregon Library.