The Story behind Bim bom dzelen’ bom!

Ksenya Kiebuzinski (PJRC) and Bogdan Horbal (New York Public Library)
New York Public Library

A discussion on the publishing history of a children’s book based on a folk song, Bim bom dzelen' bom!, illustrated by Okhrim Sudomora, and published first in Kyiv in 1918 and then in Munich in 1949.