u003cbu003eWhimsical and revolutionary poems and art by some of Russia's foremost avant-garde writers and illustratorsu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eA boy wants a toy horse big enough to ride, but where can his father find it? Not in the stores, which means its got to be built from scratch. How? With the help of expert workers, from the carpenter to the painter, working together as one. And now the bold boy is ready to ride off in defense of the future!u003cbru003eu003cbru003e Two trams, Click and Zam, are cousins. Click goes out for a day on the tracks and before long hes so tired he doesnt know where he is or how to get back. All he knows is hes got to find Zam. Click is looking for Zam and Zam is looking for Click, and though for a while it seems like nobody knows where to find Click, good and faithful Zam is not to be deterred.u003cbru003eu003cbru003e Peters a car, Vascos a steamboat, and Mikeys a plane. Theyre all running like mad and going great guns until, whoops, theres a big old cow, just a plain old cow, standing in the road. What then? The early years of the Soviet Union were a golden age for childrens literature. The Fire Horse brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russias most celebrated poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms, teamed up with some of its finest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and Vladimir Konashevich. Brilliantly translated by the poet Eugene Ostashevsky, this is poetry that is as whimsical and wonderful as it is revolutionary.