Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair: Ukrainian anti-Nazi, anti-Soviet propaganda postcards demonstrate how history unfolds on paper
Brooklyn BookBeat: September 8-10 at the Brooklyn Expo Center In Greenpoint
“Two bears, two bears, thrashed the peas,
Two roosters, two roosters took it to the mill,
And the sparrow, a fine fellow, played the fiddle.”
Where had he seen them before? Among the collection of a thousand books Emil Allakhverdov acquired at auction was a little gem – a children’s book titled “Fun World, A Folk Song,” The drawings, illustrating a song in the book, “Two Bears, Two Bears,” looked very familiar. And then, it dawned on him.