Naxitralli are funny little men half a meter tall. They live among people and lead, in general, a fairly ordinary, human life. Each of them (it seems there are only three of them, the only representatives of the Naxitrall family) has a funny trait: Muff always wears a warm muff that hides him from the tip of his nose to his toes; Polbotinka wears shoes with cut-off toes to make it comfortable to move his toes; and Moss Beard actually grows a luxurious beard made of reindeer moss interspersed with berries.
Naxitralli get to know each other at the very beginning of the book, deciding to treat themselves to ice cream, and then at the kiosk they find kindred spirits in each other. The adventure begins immediately. Newly made friends travel around a cozy and at the same time quite vast world in a red van - a real house on wheels with a bedroom and a kitchen.
In their travels around the area, the mundane is intertwined with the heroic. They save the city from the dominance of cats, find themselves prisoners in a magpie's nest full of treasures, fearlessly fight hordes of rats in the ruins of an ancient castle, nurse a wounded snake, and hatch chicks in their beards at the cost of their own freedom. And in between exploits, they cook food over a fire, spend nights under the starry sky, flirt with a young housewife, and after righteous labors they go to the sea.
These books are big, long, eventful. With them you are completely immersed in this warm world of pretty towns and endless roads, in dense forests and sun-drenched landscapes - you want to spend a week or two or three weeks in this world, and the serious volume of books just allows you to do this.
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