Kachakhidze, Giorgi. Our School's Children: A Poem (Chveni skolis q'mats'vilebi). Artist A. Gigolashvili, 1949. In Georgian.

კაჭახიძე, გიორგი. ჩვენი სკოლის ყმაწვილები : პოემა. მხატვარი ა. გიგოლაშვილი. საბავშვო და ახალგაზრდობის ლიტერატურის სახელმწიფო გამომცემლობა, საქართველოს სსრ განათლების სამინისტრო.
თბილისი : საბლიტგამი, 1949 (ლ. პ. ბერიას სახელობის პოლიგრაფკომბინატი კომუნისტი). 31 გვერდი : ილუსტრაციებით.
რბილი ყდა, სკრეპებით შეკრული, 21 სმ. ტირაჟი 10 000 ც.
პოემამ 1949 წელს მესამე პრემია მიიღო საუკეთესო მხატვრულ ნაწარმოებზე გამოცხადებულ კონკურსში.
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Kachakhidze, Giorgi. Our School's Children: A Poem. Artist A. Gigolashvili. State Publishing House of Children's and Youth Literature, Ministry of Education of the Georgian SSR.
Tbilisi: Sablitgami, 1949 (printed at the L. P. Beria Polygraph Combine Komunisti). 31 pp.: illustrations.
Paper wrappers, stapled, 21 cm. Print run 10,000 copies.
The poem was awarded third prize in the 1949 competition for the best literary work.
Wrappers: Good: small losses of paper along the spine edge of the rear wrapper. Text block: Very good: faint stains on the inside of the front wrapper.

Giorgi Kachakhidze (1907-1979) was a Georgian poet and children's writer who also edited the children's magazines Oktomberi and Pioneri. This poem, issued by the state publishing house of children's and youth literature under the Georgian Ministry of Education, belongs to the school-themed verse of late Stalin-era Georgian children's literature. The note on the verso of the title page records that it received third prize in the 1949 competition for the best literary work, announced by the Ministry of Education and the Komsomol Central Committee of Georgia. The poem is divided into numbered sections and opens with a scene in a spring forest, where a boy gathers brushwood, a motif repeated in the illustration on page 3. Black line drawings accompany the text, and the colophon credits the artist as A. Gigolashvili. The wrappers are printed in green with branches of white blossom in a naive decorative style, and the title is set in red decorative Georgian lettering. The book was signed to print on 24 October 1949 and printed in 10,000 copies at the Tbilisi polygraph combine Komunisti, whose name in the colophon includes that of L. P. Beria, a formula that disappeared from Georgian imprints after 1953. Children's books of this period were read to pieces, and a prize-winning title in pleasant original wrappers is more often found damaged than complete.