I would recommend Sergei Mihkalkhov's Disobedience Holiday. Soviet children's writing was very high quality and at par with what was being written in the west.

I would recommend Sergei Mihkalkhov's Disobedience Holiday. Soviet children's writing was very high quality and at par with what was being written in the west. Perhaps the Soviet ones had better art too and were well printed and bound as well. Even the lush Soviet inks had a peculiar inviting smell.