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        Children's & young adult poetry, anthologies, annuals
        2018

        Snow Poems For Kids

        by Sashko Dermanskyi, Halyna Malyk, Mariand Savka and other

        Children love poems. So before Christmas, the Old Lion and a group of modern Ukrainian poets and illustrators created this elegant book to read in the family circle. Snow Poems for Kids are full of fun snow games, magical gifts from St. Nicholas and magical moments of Christmas and New Year. Also, the Old Lion reminds young readers to take care of birds and animals in winter. The collection includes poems by Mariana Savka, Halyna Malyk, Halyna Kirpa, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Oleksandr Dermanskyi, Ihor Kalynets, Oksana Lushchevska, Oksana Krotiuk, Hryhorii Falkovich, Tetiana Vynnyk, Yulia Smal, Natalia Poklad, Olesia Mamchych, Ivan Andrusiak , Oleksandr Orlov. Compiler - Natalka Maletych. Illustrated by: Dasha Rakova, Oksana-Olexandra Drachkovska, Yuliia Pylypchatina, Nataliia Oliynyk, Bohdana Bondar, Oksana Bula, Marta Koshulynska, Kateryna Sad.

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        Children's & YA
        January 2018

        The Milli000000n-Dollar Idea

        by Katerina Sad (Author), Katerina Sad (Illustrator)

        When a farm is left without its owner, the ducks living there began to wonder about their future. They decide to to look for a new owner, but since they can’t write, they must learn how in order to advertise the position. Will the ducks succeed in their plan? You can discover it by flipping through the picture book The Milli000000n-Dollar Idea by Katerina Sad together with your child. Through this wonderful and humorous story, readers will learn what a successful start-up is and that there is always a way out of any difficult situation.   From 3 to 6 years, 357 words Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko, ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2024

        Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas

        by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos

        Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women's experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women's agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women's experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.

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        Poetry (Children's/YA)
        2015

        I Wish I Had a Little Horse!

        by Oksana Krotiuk

        Why does the giraffe wear a beautiful dress and nine necklaces, why does the leopard have spots, why ia the ocean called the Pacific? Curious kids will find answers to all these questions in the new book of Oksana Krotiuk's rhymes.

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        Children's & YA
        2017

        Who Grows in the Garden

        by Kateryna Mikhalitsyna (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)

        The nightingale has returned from distant Africa and is looking for a spot to build its nest. And there are so many trees and bushes in the garden to chose from! Which of them would make a good home for a bird? Maybe a sour cherry tree, or a sweet cherry tree... or perhaps even a cherry plum tree? And what about a plum, or a pear tree? Each tree tells its story to the nightingale, describing its own special traits. What emerges from the stories of the trees is the image of the old gardener, clever and kind, who treats the trees as living creatures, talks to them and cherishes them greatly, along with his family, still living in the nearby house, honoring the trees and collecting their fruit.     From 3 to 6 years,  2515 words Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        2020

        A Ghost That Couldn’t Fall Asleep

        by Natalka Maletych (Author), Natalya Chorna (Illustrator)

        In an abandoned house on the outskirts of the city, there lives a ghost. He is awfully lonely because there is no one around to visit in the evening. No bedside lamps need to be turned off if someone fell asleep with a book, no child to cover with a blanket. No reason to come back home and sleep peacefully all day long. The ghost has lost his sleep since all his neighbors moved out. But one day everything changes. A young family with a little girl move into the haunted house...   From 3 to 6 years, 2793 words Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        January 2020

        The Story Told by Zhuka

        by Grasya Oliyko (Author), Grasya Oliyko (Illustrator)

        The dog Zhuka lives at a gas station with her brother Sirius.They are fed by a nice woman, but one day she disappears. Miserable times await the dogs, because winter is coming, and workers at the gas station decide to get rid of them and take them out as soon as possible. Who knows what would have happened to them if one day a car with a family didn’t stop on the roadside and gave them shelter and love. The story told by Zhuka – the first picture book by the Ukrainian illustrator Grasya Oliyko – is an ingenuous and moving story that will touch the strings of both children’s and adult’s hearts.   From 3 to 6 years, 799 words Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko;  ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        2016

        Bison Looks for a Nest

        by Oksana Bula (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)

        Once upon a time a bison met a bear. Winter was coming and he asked the bear where he could get food since everything was covered with snow. The bear answered that he didn’t eat in the winter. Instead he usually went into a deep sleep. Every year at the same time the Tukonis, the magical forest inhabitants, would put him to sleep in a den and wake him up at springtime. The bison was amazed. He had never slept all though the winter and couldn’t even imagine that other animals did. How wonderful it would be to sleep in a cozy nest rather than roam around in the snow searching for food! The bison decided that the Tukonis should put him to bed as well.   From 3 to 6 years, 407 words Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        2013

        Who Will Make the Snow

        by Taras Prokhasko and Mariana Prokhasko

        Who Will Make the Snow', the book written by Taras Prokhasko and illustated by Mariana Prokhasko will delight readers with its fast-paced simplicity and timelessness. Following the adventures of a family of Moles from the Beech Tree Forest, readers will learn about their rich day-to-day life, the birth of their two newborns, and their adoption of a young rabbit, who brings new experiences for them all. This book will provide questions to discuss and answers to seek, and will likely become an essential book both at home and in classroom libraries.

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        Children's & YA
        2021

        Does the Baboon Have a Granny?

        by Mariana Savka (Author), Oleh Petrenko-Zanevsky (Illustrator)

        Mariana Savka's rhymes from the collection Does a Baboon Have a Granny? have amused more than a generation, and her heroes became favorites of little ones and their parents. In this book you will meet a family of donkeys and hippos, a stubborn billy goat, a little mouse that did not want to sleep, cheerful frogs and mischievous owls, a master beaver and, of course, a little baboon! Funny, cute, childish poetry, which was humorously illustrated by Oleh Petrenko-Zanevskiy, will give magical moments of family reading.   From 3 to 6 years, 990 words. Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko, ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        2018

        The Birthday of the Fir Tree

        by Oksana Bula (Author), Oksana Bula (Illustrator)

        All trees are born in summer. Fir trees are among them. The Fir tree Tukoni makes sure that they grow and get stronger for the winter. However, one tree sprouts in the middle of winter, and no one knows exactly where it will appear. No one except the partridge Tukoni. Yet, when this special tree is born, all the forest inhabitants celebrate its arrival. After all, this happens on a special day - the birthday of all the kind spirits of the forest: the Tukoni! This magnificent picture-book by famous Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula will invite young readers to a winter fairy tale and will teach children to care for nature together with the kind forest creatures, the Tukonis.   From 3 to 6 years, 151 words Rightsholders:   ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        January 2021

        Mailman

        by Katerina Sad (Author), Katerina Sad (Illustrator)

        Wolf works as a Mailman in the Big Forest. Everyone who lives in the Big Forest has a job: for example, Rook is a famous journalist, and Bee is a nurse. One day, Wolf the Mailman started to get strange letters, without an address or even a name. There were surprising things inside… Wolf didn’t stop searching for whoever might have been sending these letters until he uncovered the mystery. And when he found out, his  heart became filled with joy and love, for he had opened the door to these feelings himself!   From 3 to 5 years, 2102 words. Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko, ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        2019

        Saurus and His Younger Brother

        by Myroslav Laiuk (Author), Katerina Sad (Illustrator)

        Saurus and His Younger Brother is a fairy tale about the changing life of little Saurus from the Stegosaurus family. Saurus' life undergoes a transformation when he learns that a younger brother will soon join his family. Alongside Saurus, young readers will explore emotions such as jealousy toward a younger sibling, self-awareness, and the value of all children, whether older or younger. Through Saurus's story, children will come to understand that younger siblings are not merely trouble-makers but true friends who help you grow stronger, more confident, and more mature.   From 3 to 6 years, 2880 words Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko,  ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        January 2022

        The Rooster

        by Zoryana Zhivka (Author), Olya Haidamaka (Illustrator)

        In her later years a woman bought herself a chick. The chick was weak and a little sad, but the woman loved it and took care of it until it grew into a beautiful rooster. And that’s not the end of the story! No one could have guessed that, when enemies besieged the city where the woman lived,  the rooster would be the one to save its inhabitants!   From 3 to 5 years, 1971 words Rightsholders:  Ivan Fedechko;  ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        2016

        Bear Does Not Want to Sleep

        by Oksana Bula

        Like every year, at the end of the autumn the bear was going to go to sleep. He doing his final preparations and was waiting for Tukoni, who was to help him to settle down in his den. However, the bear met the bison, who told him about animals who do not hibernate and have fun in the winter forest . And how can the bear go to sleep after this?

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        2018

        Tukoni, the Forest Friends

        by Oksana Bula

        All night a thunderstorm raged in the woods. The tukoni named Wanderer was sleeping and didn’t notice anything, but was awoken by the alarm signal that came from his best friend, the tree. Tukoni the Wanderer convenes the other tukoni, including Moth, who is making a magical comforter. The tukoni gather together and save Wanderer’s best friend, the tree that was struck by lightning during the night. The book has the title that it does because it’s about friendship with the place where you live. People live on the planet Earth. Tukoni live in the forest. For the tukoni, the forest isn’t a fortress, a place of work, or their property. The tukoni are friends with each other, but each and every of them is also a friend of the forest, the place where they live. It’s important to treat the place where you live as a friend.

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        Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        2019

        What Grows in the Forest

        by Kateryna Mikhalitsyna

        This is the third picture book from the informative series about trees by Ukrainian writer Kateryna Mikhalitsyna and illustrator Oksana Bula. This is a story about how a grumpy badger and naughty squirrels saved the forest from the fire. Readers will also learn how spruce and larch prepare for the winter, and whether oak moss is actually a moss and why one should not burn deadwood because its not really dead. The book is also interactive: you can try and find all the firebugs hidden in the pictures, learn to distinguish different trees and make a garland in ecostyle.

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        Relationships
        2021

        Ask Miechka

        by Eugenia Kuznetsova

        The story of “Ask Miechka” features four generations of women captured during one summer. Two sisters, Mia and Lilia, come to their “shelter”, their grandmother's old house where they have spent their childhood, in an attempt to put on hold their upcoming life-changing decisions: deciding on immigrating or staying, choosing between a reliable man or wild love. Their grandmother, Thea, is nearing the end of her life and her daughter and the sisters’ mother are fearful to take the place of the oldest woman in the family. The old house, overgrown with weeds, shrubs, and sprawling trees, seems to be frozen in time, lost in oblivion. Yet the sisters bring it back to life: new people come, new cats wander in, pumpkins are grown, and the porch is renovated. The house changes, along with the lives of the women who inhabit it as the summer nears its end. In her debut novel, Eugenia Kuznetsova told a deeply intimate story about the relations between sisters, mothers, and daughters. Vivid dialogues, when the most sensitive things remain unspoken, but somehow felt, define the atmosphere of the story, and highlight the unique ties existing between the generations of women in the family.

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