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Even a fairy tale goes to bed
In about five years it will no longer be him, but I, who will wake him up in the morning for school, and he, unable to open his eyes, will mutter: “Just two more minutes.” In twenty years he will...
Oh yes Ershov!
One of the main hoaxes in the history of Russian literature is connected with “The Little Humpbacked Horse”: supposedly Ershov did not write it at all, and neither more nor less, Pushkin himself, but agreed with Ershov, wanting to receive...
Fantastic!
In elementary school, our entire class had two favorite films - "The Adventures of Electronics" and... "Guest from the Future", of course! We watched them, then discussed them, and even staged episodes during breaks. I read the book in one...
Per aspera ad Astrid
If I had to rescue only one author's children's books from a burning house (take them to a desert island/transfer them to post-apocalypse bunkers), I would choose Astrid Lindgren! If you think that Lindgren is primarily Carlson, then be sure...
Let everyone fall in love with mathematics!
Mathematics using the Zhenya Kats system is gaining momentum. They are already studying it in kindergartens, opening clubs, and organizing math camps for schoolchildren. More and more people are getting into this system because it is non-trivial and gives good...
About God's creatures
We recommend that everyone who loves animals and is interested in the world around them in general, get acquainted with this book. It is about how two children and biology professor, having shrunk several hundred times, traveled through the world...
Be careful what you wish for: they tend to come true
Do you know the story about the blue bead? Caroline and her family move to a new apartment and accidentally during the move they find a beautiful, shiny bead glowing with blue light, not just a simple bead, of course,...
Thousand!
Ahhhh, who are fixies - a big, big secret! Everyone loves fixies, but not everyone is familiar with the original source. Did you know that little people living in electrical appliances were invented by Eduard Uspensky, only in the book...
Friendship of small and good
I have long been wondering what secret the Scandinavians know that no matter what they undertake, everything turns out great. For example, children's literature - no matter what the work is, it is of the highest standard! And Nils, and...
Anne-Katherine Westley: dad, mom, eight children, truck, Shchepkin and Guro
There are books that everyone should read in childhood. Among them are the books of the famous Norwegian writer ANNE-KATRINE WESTLI (1920-2008). In her homeland, her name is known to everyone, and her popularity in Europe can only be compared...
Nazubok!
"I wanted to do something..." "Why did I come here, what did I need here?" "I forgot something and I don't remember what." Probably, everyone is familiar with such memory lapses. Moreover, the further we go, the more often it...
What to give a child who has everything ?
How often does it happen - you receive an invitation to a birthday party and don't know what to give. modern children have everything, and modern parents start to twitch their eyes when, after yet another a mountain of plastic grows on...
Why are the books about Findus ? are so good
Sven Nordqvist creates his works entirely by himself, both illustrations and text. This is not a unique phenomenon in children's literature. Tove Jansson, Susanne Rotraut Berner, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry drew illustrations with which the heroes of their fairy tales are...
Reducing prices on the site!
The prices of books in our store have two main components: the purchase price from the publisher and the cost of transportation. And the heavier the book, the more expensive the cost of transportation, often more expensive than the book...
Silly-willy dough!
One of my most unpleasant memories from childhood is a vague feeling that it is better to keep my distance from boys. No, there were a lot of normal guys around, with whom it was fun to play, there were...
On a pear in search of sushi
There are books that everyone likes: children and parents, boys and girls, little kids and big kids.The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear" is one of them, which is not surprising: the author is Jacob Strid, a Dane, the heir...
Four ideas for a children's holiday
In our family, children's birthdays were celebrated on the same scale as adults': with a bunch of guests, a full-fledged festive table, gatherings until late; and plus, unlike adults, who simply ate, drank, sang and danced, there was a holiday...
Lyrics and physicists
"If you want your children to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them more fairy tales," said Albert Einstein. But how can you read if the child does not listen? Einstein would...
Fairy tales walk around the light
I love "The Wizard of the Emerald City" very much, I love the whole series tenderly, for me it is a real magical land from childhood. And every time I feel almost personal offense when I hear about plagiarism: Volkov,...
Vacations in the country
"On Saltkroka Island" is not Astrid Lindgren's most famous novel, it does not have any dizzying adventures or pranks like "Pippi" and "Emil", you will not laugh at it like at Karlsson, not many events happen here at all. This...
It's time to have fun!
"Our northern summer is a caricature of southern winters", so every fine day counts, and we want to spend it as brightly as possible. Now I'll tell you about our exclusively summer entertainment with children (which, among other things, look...