Item #54499 [UKRAINIAN DIASPORA CHILDRENS' LITERATURE – NEW GUINEA] Litaiuchi samotsvity: opovidannia ta legendy z zhyttia tubil'tsiv Novoi Gvinei [Flying gems: stories and legends from the life of the indigenous people of New Guinea]. Sibo, P. Vakulenko, ozhena.

Sibo, B[ozhena] and P. Vakulenko.

[UKRAINIAN DIASPORA CHILDRENS' LITERATURE – NEW GUINEA] Litaiuchi samotsvity: opovidannia ta legendy z zhyttia tubil'tsiv Novoi Gvinei [Flying gems: stories and legends from the life of the indigenous people of New Guinea].

Melbourne-Adelaide: V-vo Lastivka, 1957. Octavo (19.4 × 14.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. With five color plates on better stock. One leaf of musical notation. Private inventory label to front wrapper; text tonewhat toned; else very good. Item #54499

Volume of five tales for children by Ukrainian diaspora writer Bozhena Sibo, which reflects the culture and ethnography of the Oceanian peoples of New Guinea. As a recent researcher noted, children's literature by Ukrainian writers active in Brazil and Australia often reflected such themes, "present[ing] pictures of the nature of exotic countries, customs between tribes, but also rais[ing] moral, ethical, cultural, social and political issues, extrapolating them to the Ukrainian society. By articulating the similarities between the culture and history of the indigenous people of Australia, Brazil, and New Guinea and that of Ukraine, the artists condemned domination and expressed the right of peoples to express themselves." See: Marina Vardanian, "Etnokul'turni obrazy ekzotychnykh krain u literaturi dlia ditei ta iunatstva pys'mennykiv ukrains'koi diaspory XX stolittia" in Literatury svitu, vol. 13 (2019).

Edited by Dmytro Chub and with illustrations in color by P. Vakulenko, a writer and artist active in Australia about whom we are unable to find further information.

As of July 2024, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.