Ballad illustrated by Charles Santoso Olga and her family live

Olga and her family live a life of dull privilege in the capital until her father displeases the tyrannical tsarina

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Ballad illustrated by Charles Santoso Olga and her family liveA New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens Book of 2013! Ballad is a story. It is also a narrative song, and like all great stories, it deepens with each retelling. Ballad builds over seven sequences. The first has three images: school, path, home. The next builds upon the first, giving us: school, street, path, forest, home. The next five sequences take up this story, but with new words and images that nearly double the previous sequence. Here a