The Giant Cockroach

The Giant Cockroach
Tarakanishche on a Russian postage stamp, 1993

The Giant Cockroach or The Roach (as translated by Miriam Morton, 1958[1]) or Cock-The-Roach (as translated by Tom Botting, 1981[2]), also popularly known by its Russian name Tarakanishche (lit. 'Тараканище'), is a popular Russian children's fairy tale poem written by poet Korney Chukovsky in 1921.[3] The poem was later published by Raduga Publishers in 1923[4][5] and is regarded as a cultural poetic heritage among Russophones. It tells the story of an overgrown cockroach who assumed power over mankind and animals by bullying and threatening them, only to fall prey to a sparrow in the end.[6]

  1. ^ From Two to Five, 1958, Contents
  2. ^ Cock-the-roach. Progress Publishers. 1981.
  3. ^ "Корней Чуковский: Сказки - читать на сайте о семье Чуковских". www.chukfamily.ru. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  4. ^ "Watching the Mighty Cockroach Fall". Asia Society. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  5. ^ Beckett, Sandra L. (11 October 2013). Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-68586-7.
  6. ^ . ISBN 5945828181. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)