বুদ্ধিমতী মাশা

by Nina Gernet, Bronislav Malakhovsky (Illustrator), Noni Bhowmik (Translator)

এক্কেবারে ছোটবেলা থেকেই, মাশা যখন দোলনায়, তখনই মাশা এক হাতে ঝুমঝুমি বাজাত আর এক হাতে মশা তাড়াত। তাই না দেখে মাশার বাবা-মা, দিদিমা, আত্মীয়স্বজন, চেনাপরিচিত, তাদের আত্মীয়স্বজন সবাই একবাক্যে বলেছিল, 'সত্যি, খুবই, খুবই বুদ্ধিমতী মাশা'।

Genres: Childrens, Russia

16 pages, Paperback

About the author

Nina Vladimirovna Gernet [Нина Владимировна Гернет], Russian writer and playwright. Nina Gernet began writing in Odessa after graduating from high school. In 1925, she moved to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and joined the Directing Department of the Stage Arts Institute, graduating in 1930. She published her first children’s book in 1933, which was followed by a series of plays staged by the Leningradsky dom khudozhestvennogo vospitaniya detei (Leningrad House of Artistic Education for Children). Of special note was her work for the children’s magazine, Chizh (named after a variety of finch, 1932-1937), renowned for its ostracized contributors, Daniil Kharms and Nikolai Radlov. In the years of Stalin’s purges she assisted in the labour camp’s puppet theatre productions in Russia’s northern region of Komi.

Nina Gernet has written more than twenty-five plays for the puppet theatre as well as a number of plays for children’s drama theatre, children’s books and screenplays. Her career in puppetry began with Gusyonok (The Little Goose), a game-play for very young children that she co-authored with Tatyana Gurevich. The play was successfully received not only in the cities of the Soviet Union but also in Japan, China, and many European countries. The play marked the beginning of Nina Gernet’s many years of collaboration with the Gosudarstvenny akademichesky tsentralny teatr kukol imeni S.V. Obraztsova (Sergei Obraztsov State Academic Central Puppet Theatre).

Her play, Volshenaya lampa Aladdina (Aladdin’s Magic Lamp, 1940), became the first play for the theatre’s adult audiences. Her other plays for the company included Maugli (Mowgli, 1945), Lesniye artisty (Forest Artists, 1949), Tsarevna lyagushka (The Frog Princess, 1960), and a stage adaptation of Jan Wilkowski and Hanna Yanushevskaya’s Tigrionok Petrik (Petrik the Baby Tiger, 1964). Among her many publications, Skazka o malenkom Kaplike i ieshcho desiat skazok dlia teatra kukol (The Tale of the Little Kaplik and Ten other Fairy Tales for the Puppet Theatre, 1975) should be especially mentioned.

Among Soviet playwrights for the puppet theatre, Nina Gernet was the first and only artist to receive the “classic” status during her lifetime. As a member of the international puppetry community, she was made a UNIMA Member of Honour.

Reviews

[Tawheeda Rufah Nilima · Rating 5 out of 5]

আমার জীবনে পড়া সবচেয়ে মিষ্টি বইগুলোর একটা। মাশা, ভিতিয়া আর ওদের চারটে কুকুর ববিক, রবিক, লবিক, জুবিক - এরা সবাই এতো মিষ্টি আর আদুরে। আমার প্রিয় মিঠাই গাজরের হালুয়ার মতো মজার এই বই। আর বইয়ের ভেতরে আঁকা ছবিগুলোও কি সুন্দর! ভারি আনন্দ নিয়ে ছোট্ট এই বইখানা পড়লাম। আর ননী ভৌমিক এর অনুবাদ কি ভালো!

[শোয়েব হোসেন · Rating 4 out of 5]

বাচ্চাকে পইড়া শুনাইলাম। ভালোই লাগলো। ইন্টারাকটিভ বই। কিছু গল্প লেখা আছে, বাকিটা ছবি আঁকা। বুঝে নিতে হবে। ইন্টারেস্টিং।

[Raihan Atahar · Rating 5 out of 5]

ছোট বাচ্চাদের, বিশেষ করে ৫-১০ বছরের বাচ্চাদের জন্য দারুণ একটি সচিত্র বই। বইয়ের থিম ও ছবিগুলো বেশ কার্যকর। বইটি পড়লে বাচ্চাদের ভাল ব্রেইন স্টর্মিং হবে।

[Farhana Sufi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another hand-me down book I received from my youngest aunt when I was very little. My parents read to me first and then I would read by myself. It's one of those books that I've probably read more than a hundred times! I love Masha, I would picture myself as Masha and have her adventures. She was so naughty and witty at the same time. And she had a younger brother who was her assistant and a pet dog, all a little girl ever wants. :D

[Redmond]

This is from my Childhood. If I can remember this after 40 years then that alone speaks for the book.

The book has few small stories in pictures. Masha finding a sewing needle using a magnet, Masha learning how to skate, Masha carrying home a large goose etc. Illustrations are in I think what is called a Linedrawing style.