Last year Kurly-Murly was busy with organizing two art shows at the Museum of Anna Ahmatova in Saint Petersburg, Russia with the participation of kids from Saint Petersburg, Berlin, New York and Moscow. You can see photos and information about "Puppet Theater Show" and "The Future City"

Finger Puppet Theater provides a framework for children to engage in interactive communication with a book. To creatively deal with what some perceive as the "attack" on books by toys, interactive games and web-activities, our project offers the child a "hands-on" approach. But we retain the important aspects of "old school books"–the story, play, and basic cultural references.

Vladimir Gandelsman is well known to serious readers of contemporary Russian literature and poetry. As a dissident under the Soviet regime, his published output was largely limited to underground samizdat material circulated in secret, but the collapse of the USSR brought him the larger recognition he deserved. In 1992, eminent Russian poet Josef Brodsky’s high praise for Gandelsman led to a US publishing contract.

"Doctor Seuss is the most famous American children’s author."
— Korney Chukovsky

Following the release of "The Cat in the Hat", Dr. Seuss became the most highly paid children’s writer in American history. His 59 books, translated into 20 languages, have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. Kurly-Murly is currently publishing the first three of what we hope to be a long series of translations of the works of Dr. Seuss into Russian.