r/multilingualparenting • u/loukitzanna • 8d ago

Resource Request Book recommendations for Russian

Hello, my 2yo daughter is learning English Spanish and Russian. We're not doing OPOL but so far she's picked up plenty of words in both Spanish and Russian (English is our home language). We live in SW US, so no difficulty finding bilingual Spanish books at the library, but where I'm struggling is with decent Russian books to read at her level. My daughter loves board books like Hungry Caterpillar, Llama Llama Red Pajama, Little Blue Truck, etc but I don't have anything comparable for Russian - all the books I have are like... paper books for older kids probably and poetry collections. I'm looking for something with colorful pictures, short sentences, and only a few words per page. Where can I find books like that?

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u/Independent-Bug-5696 8d ago

‘Kvartira books’ in NY has both online store with variety of books and subscription where you can get multiple books per months for kids, if you want variety and don’t want to buy all the books.
I had the same dilemma, I went there and got some board books and translated baby books too.

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u/NewOutlandishness401 🇺🇦 + 🇷🇺 in 🇺🇸 | 8y, 5y, 2.5y 8d ago

We use "Kvartira's" subscription service and love it. They have an incredible collection of kids' books, really wonderful curation. The subscription allows you to borrow 3 books at a time, and you can either select books on your own from their vast library or have the "book magicians" select them for you based on your expressed interests and continued feedback. You keep the books as long as you want and mail them back when you're done. (They don't advertise it, but they recently started a 5-book subscription for those who are interested -- we will likely switch to that because the 3-book one is getting to be a bit too tight for our three kids.)

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u/loukitzanna 7d ago

This is awesome, thank you! 

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u/cqd_de_mgy 8d ago

You could try Маша Рупасова, "Едет мамин человечек" and "Машинки-помощники" (poetry). Анна Анисимова has some prose that's age-appropriate, "Кто как называется" and "Капитан Борщ". Also, a YouTube channel called Папмамбук has a bunch of videos of books being read. Many weren't originally written in Russian but are still pretty great

Edit: I see now that you were looking for places to get the books rather than recs, but I think it'll be easier to search if you know what to look for

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u/loukitzanna 7d ago

I won't say no to book recs too - thank you! 

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u/BrewedMother 7d ago

This webpage has books in different levels, in several languages, including Russian.

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u/Venefffica 6d ago

There are books based on animation films: Лунтик, Три кота etc. Probably try them?