Svit dytyny

Svit dytyny («Світ дитини»; Child’s World). An illustrated semimonthly and, from 1925, monthly children’s magazine, published in Lviv in 1919–39. In 1923–5 it was a supplement to the teen magazine Moloda Ukraïna. It was published and edited by Mykhailo Taranko, and its contributors included some of the best writers of children's literature and teachers in Western Ukraine. It was very popular there and among Ukrainian immigrants in North America. From 1920 the Svit Dytyny publishing house (est November 1919) also issued a series of some 230 illustrated children’s books by foreign authors in translation and by Ukrainian writers, such as Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Jules Verne, Antin Lototsky (pseuds: Ya. Vilshenko, O. Bilousenko), V. Khronovych, Osyp Makovei, Vasyl Levytsky-Sofroniv, Mariika Pidhirianka, F. Kokovsky, and Bohdan Lepky.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]