Hunting for a Butterfly

2 hrs. 40 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Prishvin

Narrator Stanislav Fedosov

Description

The audiobook “The Hunt for the Butterfly,” named after one of the stories included in it, features lyrical prose by Mikhail Prishvin about nature and animals—gentle and accessible for young listeners. The author admired the grandeur and beauty of nature, studied the habits of forest inhabitants and his four-legged and winged pets, and knew how to write about it in an engaging and very heartfelt way. If you want to awaken in your children a kind attitude toward all living things and teach them to notice the beauty of the world around them, Prishvin’s tales will help.

Contents:

Chicken on Stilts
The Peaked Dame
Matryoshka in the Potato Patch
Fighter and Crybaby
Hromka
A Sip of Milk
How I Taught My Dogs to Eat Peas
Petya’s Boot
How Romka Crossed the Creek
The Hunt for the Butterfly
Kado
The Birth of the Little Pot
Blue Arctic Foxes
The Leopard (Barso)
Lemon
Show-off
Icicle
Ants
Grandfather’s Felt Boot
Badgers
Thistlefinch-Turlukan
Familiar Jack Snipe
Honey-Martin (Kuna-mydovka)
Blue Slipper (Siny Lapot)
Lingonberry
Our Garden
An Old Mushroom