Tell me a story, Babushka Author Carola Schmidt Illustrator Anita Barghigiani
Book Review 5 out of 5 stars! This is a picture book story with a targeted audience being ages five to eight years old. Honestly, my first picture book review for young audiences. "Would you like a story about a princess, Karina?" "Maybe one of those stories about a princess and monsters, Baba." Karina asks her Baba (Grandmother), to tell her a story. Little does young Karina know that the story is about Baba's childhood. Baba had to survive through the Holodomer, but tells the story using creative interpretation so as to not frighten young Karina. The story does contain everything Karina wanted and just a little more. With a happily ever after that will have you smiling and more than likely a child begging for you to read the book again! I had to do a quick little history lesson because I couldn't fully remember what Holodomer meant or what it was. Holodomer was the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from year 1932 to 1933. Millions of people lost their live...