Marshak, S. The Multicolored Book (Raznotsvetnaya kniga). Illustrated by V. Lebedev, 1974. In Russian.

С. Маршак.
Разноцветная книга.
Рисунки В. Лебедева.
Москва: Детская литература, 1974.
12 с. : ил. ; 28 см. Мягкая издательская обложка. Энциклопедический формат.
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S. Marshak.
The Multicolored Book.
Illustrations by V. Lebedev.
Moscow: Detskaya Literatura, 1974.
12 pp. : ill. ; 28 cm. Softcover. Encyclopedic format.

This classic of Soviet children's literature brings together the mastery of poet Samuil Marshak and the avant-garde-rooted graphic style of Vladimir Lebedev. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of visual and linguistic harmony, including the arrangement of six famous poems—Green, Blue, Yellow, White, Red, and Black—each occupying its own distinct page. Marshak’s verses, which have entered the Russian language as aphorisms and folk wisdom, guide the child through a world of color and sensation. Published in an encyclopedic format by "Detskaya Literatura" in 1974, this edition continues the long-standing collaboration between Marshak and Lebedev that defined the aesthetic of Soviet children's books for decades, proving that a poet’s work truly lives when it stays with a reader from infancy to old age.