Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, January 22 - February 11, 1962. Unsigned texts and photographs of Soviet children. "Soviet man has blazed the trail to outer space. He has opened up a new era in the history of our planet. He was born in a country where the writer H.G. Wells saw nothing but complete devastation and ruin, in a country where, prior to the revolution, 76 per cent of the population wad illiterate. ... National arts helps the children and young people to understand the beauty of their native folk tales, of their native landscape, the history of their people and their country." -- from book's texts. Texts in English.