Too Many Babas - I Can Read Book 2 First published in 1979, Crolls funny, popular too-many-cooks story is newly illustrated here, with the babas(grandmothers) in a Russian winter setting. The simple, bright pictures in folk-art style show the bustling peasant women in the kitchen, each one tasting and adding and making a bigger mess of the soup. ... more »0; BL.« less