Sibo Vakulenko (2 results)

Stryi; New York; Omaha; Cleveland: Vydannia zahonu Ch[ervona] K[alyna]. 5 K.U.P.S., 1952. Oblong octavo (17.5 × 21.5 cm). Original side-stapled wrappers with a decorative mimeographed design; 36 pp. of mimeographed text and illustrations to rectos and versos. Light soil to wrappers, owner inscription to front wrapper; markings in pencil to rear wrapper and to inside of the block; else about about very good. Second volume (of five printed) of this short-lived illustrated periodical published by the 5th Troop of the Chervona Kalyna scouts, which was part of the larger "Plast" scouting movement. This volume intended for children of the Ukrainian diaspora contains patriotic poems, essays about life in exile, puzzles, rebuses, as well as letters from the readers. A highlight of this volume is a story of Ukrainian girl scouts in Ohio, prevented from displaying the Ukrainian flag during a schoolwide scouting event because of the local confusion about Ukraine being associated with the Soviet Union, with soviet insignia being illegal in the US at this time. The girls explaining to the school administration that Ukraine was in fact annexed by the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian flag should not be confused with the Soviet flag. A patriotic Ukrainian scouting organization, Plast was founded in Lviv in 1911, with Chervona Kalyna section founded in 1925. The Ukrainian scouts continued their activities in the German and Austrian DP camps after WWII, with the 5th troop of Chevona Kalyna established in 1947. After the dispersion of Ukrainian DPs in the early 1950s, many Ukrainians settled in the United States, with local chaoters of the Plast scouts operating around the US. One of 125 copies printed. As of October 2025, KVK, OCLC show one copy of this volume worldwide, in North America.

Melbourne-Adelaide: V-vo Lastivka, 1957. Octavo (19.4 × 14.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 62, [2] pp. With five color plates on better stock. One leaf of musical notation. Private inventory label to front wrapper; text tonewhat toned; else very good. Volume of five tales for children by Ukrainian diaspora writer Bozhena Sibo, which reflects the culture and ethnography of the Oceanian peoples of New Guinea. As a recent researcher noted, children's literature by Ukrainian writers active in Brazil and Australia often reflected such themes, "present[ing] pictures of the nature of exotic countries, customs between tribes, but also rais[ing] moral, ethical, cultural, social and political issues, extrapolating them to the Ukrainian society. By articulating the similarities between the culture and history of the indigenous people of Australia, Brazil, and New Guinea and that of Ukraine, the artists condemned domination and expressed the right of peoples to express themselves." See: Marina Vardanian, "Etnokul'turni obrazy ekzotychnykh krain u literaturi dlia ditei ta iunatstva pys'mennykiv ukrains'koi diaspory XX stolittia" in Literatury svitu, vol. 13 (2019). Edited by Dmytro Chub and with illustrations in color by P. Vakulenko, a writer and artist active in Australia about whom we are unable to find further information. As of July 2024, KVK, OCLC show five copies in North America.