Learning about Russia is a topic near and dear to my families heart. My husband is a Russian American and we believe strongly in raising globally aware children who are knowledgeable about the world. There are many ideas about how to start introducing different places and cultures to your children. I tend to start with what I know, then branch out to the cultures and heritages of our family, friends, classmates, and neighbors.
Although there are many ways to teach about a culture, reading books is a great way to introduce your children to our global word. Books are relatively inexpensive, many times being able to rent for free from the library! Here is the collection of Russian Books that I would want to have in my dream library!
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Russian Themed Picture Books for Children:
Non-Fiction Books about Russia for Children
Books to Teach the Russian Language
Love teaching your children about the world? Here is a collection of Children’s Book about Puerto Rico from one of our blogging friends.
Here are some more articles and activities I’ve written about learning Russian language and culture with my own children!
- Seven Ways to use Matroshka Dolls to Teach
- Russian Art for Children with Abstract Project Instructions
- Chalk Replicas of Russian Buildings – a lesson in art, math, and geography
- A virtual tour of Izhevsk, Russia
- Act out a traditional story – Repka
- Sharing Russian Culture with Friends
- Russian Food
- Where to find resources to teach Russian
- Making Borsht and labeling your fridge
- Activities for non-native speakers to teach another language
- What environmental print looks like in my home
- The Importance of Music
- How to build a bilingual book collection
- Christmas Traditions
- Including traditional toys in play
Amanda, I posted this on facebook. What a great resource! Thanks so much for sharing.
What a great post! Thank you for taking the time to put this together. There are so many wonderful book about other cultures that are often hard to find. Thank you for posting. T.
Great list…and so timely with the Sochi Olympics.
This is a great resource. Thanks for posting it.
Such a great resource – for teachers and parents alike.
THANK YOU Amber for sharing and your sweet words!
Agreed Tanja! My kids are always clamoring for more books about Russia and they are limited in number.
And hopefully librarians too =)
Yes Lynn, I blog randomly about Russia and the Russian language, but Multicultural Book Day and the Olympics spurred this post!
Awe =) Thank you Jacqueline!
I hope you don't mind me sharing on my facebook page. I love to promote books that are diverse and show other cultures and heritages. Thank you for sharing your list
Your book selection is great! I totally agree that reading books is one of the best ways children can learn about the world. I raise my children trilingual (Russian, Italian & English) and I see how much they like to read books written by international authors. We learn how people live/ lived in Russia, Holland, Sweden, Italy…
What a wonderful resource and so timely!