{"id":21660,"date":"2013-08-24T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=21660"},"modified":"2014-04-20T03:01:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T03:01:40","slug":"i-see-the-sun-in-russia-by-dedie-king-illustrated-by-judith-inglese-translation-by-irina-ossapova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/i-see-the-sun-in-russia-by-dedie-king-illustrated-by-judith-inglese-translation-by-irina-ossapova\/","title":{"rendered":"I See the Sun in Russia by Dedie King, illustrated by Judith Inglese, translation by Irina Ossapova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/I-See-the-Sun-in-Russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25561\" alt=\"I See the Sun in Russia\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/I-See-the-Sun-in-Russia-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Young Anton of Saint Petersburg, Russia begins and ends his day with music &#8230; he wakes remembering the notes of the ballet\u00a0<em>Swan Lake<\/em> which he saw the night before, and drifts off to sleep that evening as his grandmother plays another <em>Swan<\/em> song at\u00a0the family&#8217;s piano.<\/p>\n<p>Music dominates Anton&#8217;s life, from the specialized music school he attends,\u00a0to his violin lessons followed by his violin ensemble practice, to his mini-performance for his appreciative grandmother after dinner. In between, he\u00a0visits the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermitagemuseum.org\/html_En\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hermitage Museum<\/a>\u00a0with his class, helps his mother pick up a few groceries on the way home from school,\u00a0plays soccer in the hall with a friend, and enjoys dinner with his family.<\/p>\n<p>Anton&#8217;s story is somewhat of a departure from the other girls and boys who populate the expanding around-the-world, bilingual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iseethesunbooks.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>I See the Sun<\/em> series<\/a>\u00a0from New England boutique press\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.satyahouse.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Satya House Publications<\/a>: compared to his series&#8217; counterparts,\u00a0Anton is perhaps the most privileged. While &#8220;his parents work long days to provide for their family,&#8221; they have access to cultural luxuries that the series&#8217; other children thus far have not, including visits to the ballet and opera, musical instruments at home, even a\u00a0<em>dacha\u00a0\u2013<\/em>\u00a0a &#8220;small country cabin &#8230; where they can relax on weekends and vacations in the summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As with the series&#8217; other titles, <em>Russia<\/em> concludes with a thorough contextual afterword; this one offers a cultural overview of Saint Petersburg, with an emphasis on the arts as a &#8220;powerful force.&#8221; When the going gets tough, especially in our Stateside schools, arts and music programs usually become the first victims of funding cuts. Anton&#8217;s life proves to be a subtle, cross-cultural reminder from the other side of the world to invest in making beautiful music together, with and for our children.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.7\">Readers<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.7\">: Children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Anton of Saint Petersburg, Russia begins and ends his day with music &#8230; he wakes remembering the notes of the ballet\u00a0Swan Lake which he saw the night before, and drifts off to sleep that evening as his grandmother plays another Swan song at\u00a0the family&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[697,62,6,60,712],"tags":[205,6608,59,698,10,710,711,700,672,42,702],"class_list":["post-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilingual","category-children-picture-books","category-fiction","category-nonethnic-specific","category-russian","tag-art-architecture","tag-bookdragon","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-dedie-king","tag-family","tag-i-see-the-sun-in-russia","tag-irina-ossapova","tag-judith-inglese","tag-music","tag-series","tag-series-i-see-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I See the Sun in Russia by Dedie King, illustrated by Judith Inglese, translation by Irina Ossapova - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/i-see-the-sun-in-russia-by-dedie-king-illustrated-by-judith-inglese-translation-by-irina-ossapova\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I See the Sun in Russia by Dedie King, illustrated by Judith Inglese, translation by Irina Ossapova - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Young Anton of Saint Petersburg, Russia begins and ends his day with music &#8230; 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