Rechenka's Eggs

About this book

An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.

Subjects

  • animal welfare
  • children's fiction
  • decoration and ornament
  • easter eggs
  • easter stories
  • eggs
  • eggs, fiction
  • festivals
  • fiction
  • geese
  • geese, fiction
  • gifts
  • grandmothers
  • handicraft
  • juvenile fiction
  • magic, fiction
  • miracles
  • new york times reviewed
  • painting
  • peasants
  • soviet union
  • soviet union, fiction
  • wild animals as pets