Sealed but been in storage. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra media that have been on our shelfs for too long. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: This selection contains fairy tales of the following indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian Far Russian, Tuvinian, Evenk, Selkup, Dolgan, Yakut, Tofalarian, Ket, Buryat, Mansi, Nenets, Khakass, Nanai, Nganassan, and Shorian; as well as proverbs, signs, sayings and a short glossary of little known words and expressions in Russian and in English.Some of these people are extremely small in number. For example, there are less than a thousand Tofalarians and Shorians. So it is all the more important to pass on their rich oral heritage to the young readers today.DEAR CHILDREN,Would you like to know why animals differ from each other? Why the Raven is black and not white? Why Lions don't live in Siberia anymore, and why the Bear has no thumb? Or how the Falcon lit a fire in the sky, how the Ant visited the Frog, and how the Gnat triumphed over the Evil Spirit - Chuchunna?This book will tell you fairy tales and legends about various animals, birds, and insects inhabiting the taiga and tundra. Siberian boys and girls love listening to these stories and reading them. Sometimes they even make up their own tales.We hope you will like these fairy takes too, as well as the pictures by Victor and Larisa Yegorov from Krasnoyarsk.Happy Reading!The Publisher