ukraine

When a farmer proposes a contest to decide which of his three sons will inherit his farm, Ivan is content to sit at home while his brothers go out into the world to prove their worth.

A poor peasant woman who has no money for gifts or a special meal for her children gets help from a kindly mother spider on Christmas.

A biography of a young skater who won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

A biography of the young Ukrainian figure skater who won a gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Describes how the culture of Ukraine is reflected in its many festivals, including Yumoryna, Ivana Kupala, and Old New Year.

A retelling of the traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals.

Fourteen-year-old Miriam flees to America with her family in 1910, where her family settles in a tenement building on the Lower East Side of New York and Miriam gets a job as a cuff setter at the Triangle Waist Company, but just as she is finishing work on March 25, 1911, a fire begins in the factory and she struggles to escape.

A retelling of the traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals.

A mouse, frog, owl, rabbit, fox, wolf, bear, and cricket all try to find shelter from the snow in a little boy's lost mitten.

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.