Have you ever opened your grandmother's old treasure chest? Lots of memories come out: your grandma's sewing machine, your old toys, notebooks, letters, your grandpa's pipe...... Children will be delighted to ponder how old these treasures are and how they were used by their grandparents' generation.

'How Chipmunk Got His Stripes And Other Siberian Folktales' is based on the folklore of Siberia's (Russian Far East) indigenous peoples. It is the third book in the series of 'Tales of My Childhood'. Siberia is a vast region in the eastern part of Russia in northern Asia. It extends from the Ural Mountains to the Russian Far East, bounded in the north by the Arctic Ocean and in the south by Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. Most of the area is covered with swamps and the Taiga forests. Siberia's original inhabitants were hunting, fishing and herding tribes whose cultures were related to those...