Baboushka and the Three Kings adapted from a Russian Folk Tale

Berkeley, CA: Parnassus Press. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1960. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This is a stated third printing. This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The dust jacket has one small chip to the bottom front spine joint, and several small spots of rubbing, along with a couple of tiny edge nicks. "Nicolas Sidjakov (December 16, 1924 – June 20, 1993) was a Latvian-born Russian American commercial artist and illustrator. Sidjakov was born in Riga, Latvia. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, worked in advertising, and freelanced for the French movie industry. In 1954 he moved to the United States and continued to work in advertising. He also began to illustrate children's books, mainly picture books, beginning with The Friendly Beasts by Laura Nelson Baker, adapted from "The Friendly Beasts", an English Christmas carol. It was published in 1957 by Parnassus Press of Berkeley, California. Parnassus was a small press established only that year by Herman Schein, whose wife Ruth Robbins was a writer and illustrator. During the next several years it published at least three picture books created by Robbins, as writer, and Sidjakov. The first was Baboushka and the Three Kings, retelling the "Russian folktale about an old woman's endless search for the Christ child". For that work he received the annual Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association in 1961, as illustrator of the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children"" .