My First Nursery Rhymes and Poems

The "Books for Babies!" series features the best works for a child's first introduction to children's literature: nursery rhymes, taunts, lullabies, counting rhymes, poems, and stories by the best children's authors. The works included in this collection existed at a time when people could not yet write. However, they sang, recited, and retold these short poems, songs, taunts, and nursery rhymes to their children from memory, then passed them down from generation to generation. That is how they reached us. Today, we read and sing them to our children and grandchildren. The book contains the most important nursery rhymes and poems for babies, written by classic Russian children's authors such as S. Mikhalkov, Z. Alexandrova, and V. Stepanov.