Olga and her family live a life of dull privilege in the capital until her father displeases the tyrannical tsarina
Like many questions posed by curious children
and pushing boundaries with patterns that twist stitches in every row for more advanced textures
performers—for whom the home represents the ultimate canvas of self-expression
Ballad illustrated by Charles Santoso Olga and her family liveA New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Book of 2013! Ballad is a story. It is also a narrative song, and like all great stories, it deepens with each retelling. Ballad builds over seven sequences. The first has three images: school, path, home. The next builds upon the first, giving us: school, street, path, forest, home. The next five sequences take up this story, but with new words and images that nearly double the previous sequence. Here a