![]() ![]() The lion decides not to eat this puppy, and they become friends. Tail between its legs, it squeezed itself into the corner of the cage as the lion came closer and closer.” Tolstoy recounts the lion coming for a puppy that got lost by its master: “Poor little dog. It’s about a hungry lion in the zoo, whose keepers comb the streets for stray cats and dogs to feed him. The first story turned out to be the only one we endured together. Now I sincerely wish I had never touched them. Tolstoy wrote them they couldn’t be that bad. My first thought was: Children’s stories by the author of the inspirational The Death of Ivan Ilyich? But pestilence has closed the schools and home reading was important. My children fell in love with that picture, and they wanted me to read them the book. The cover has a nice picture of a lion and a puppy the illustrations by Claus Sievert are lovely throughout. In 1988, the children’s novelist and Russia expert James Riordan translated several of these for a collection called The Lion and the Puppy: And Other Stories for Children, published first by Henry Holt and Company. Tolstoy was known to drop by from time to time and share stories that he wrote himself, which, in his typical modesty, he predicted would be read by “thousands, even millions.” THE RUSSIAN NOVELIST Leo Tolstoy, also a gentleman farmer, operated an ancestral estate called Yasnaya Polyana that included a small school for the children of the peasants who labored there.
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