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In the best traditions of the adventures of Soviet schoolchildren. The twins Sasha and Alyosha do not really like to do penmanship, and one day, while doing their homework again, they wished that such a complex letter as “SH” did...
Rabbits are not only valuable fur
I don’t even have anything to compare this book with. I've never read anything that was both fantasy and animal fiction. "The Hill Dwellers" is a fairly large-scale novel about the life of rabbits. The plot is this: several rabbits,...
About accepting the inevitable
What kind of book could there be about a child dying in a hospital? The first thing that comes to mind is heartbreaking. Depressed. At the very least, bitter. But the French story “Oscar and the Pink Lady,” written 20...
So that's what you are, sorcerers, inventors of a magic wand
Fantasy has replaced adventure literature. If Soviet-style schoolchildren read Jules Verne and Mine Reid, then for modern children such a way to immerse themselves in another reality is “Harry Potter” and Comrades. Despite the fact that the fantasy genre is...
Natural honey
An unfairly little-known fairy tale. It’s a pity, because “The Little Bee” by Anatole France is simply magnificent! In no way inferior to classic fairy tales like “Cinderella” or “The Princess and the Pea”. Honestly, from some point of view,...
I can dig. I can't dig.
For the first time, Sonya came from the pen of Andrei Usachev as a cartoon script. The cartoon was filmed in the early 90s, and then it was constantly shown on all channels (remember the screensaver of a tiny dog...
Fuck participation, the main thing is victory!
Who is this unprincipled person? Who is this impudent guy? And who cares about winning at any cost? Cheat, interpret the rules exclusively in your favor, coldly ruin your rivals - who is this about? This is about a munchkin...
Beware: high concentration of care!
Real fantasy. Not because there are distant planets and space flights, no, we are talking about absolutely realistic events, but still it’s science fiction because... Well, because think for yourself, can parents, two children (brother and sister) and three grandmothers...
Sixth grade and insect class
Three enthusiastic guys are very friendly, two of them are entomologists, the third is a poet. And around this company and their hobbies all other events from school life take place: tests, holidays, performances, presentations. Their classmates also join in,...
A beautiful story about how children bloom in an English garden
It’s the beginning of the 20th century. Ten-year-old Mary arrives in Britain from India and finds herself on the estate of her old uncle, who has nothing to do with the girl. After the death of his wife, the uncle...
Continuation of the series about old people with a sweet tooth
Many people fell in love with the chocolate grandfather, so the marmalade grandmother did not hesitate to appear on the world stage - welcome! The grandmother is not seen in any relationship with the grandfather, she is a self-sufficient woman,...
Sugar baby and bitter life
It seems to me that the history of a country can be learned from textbooks, but it can only be experienced through the stories of specific people. Especially when you are not yet very mature and you try everything on...
True detective. Beasty tales
We have already talked about these out-of-this-world fairy tales here: https://karuselbooks.com/blogs/blog/%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0% B5-%D0%B8-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D0%B7%D0%B2% D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8 I looked at it now and realized that everything is written there so correctly that there is nothing to add or subtract from, but we must continue...
4.5 billion years of history
Retelling 4.5 billion years of history is such a drag: well, first there was a spectacular explosion, everyone knows that, then the Earth was a solid ocean, then something incomprehensible began to appear in the water, then it slowly and...
Nomadland
Given: a fighting girl from a large family and a marginal almost grandfather who lives in a bus converted into a motor home. They meet out of love for books, although grandfather is not at all happy about this acquaintance....
Preparing for a good life
Life is a long journey, and you should carefully choose what to take with you and what will only get in the way along the way. The book “What They Don’t Teach at School” captivates at first sight: large, A4...
Beautiful life in the village
This book is good in everything: the language, the atmosphere, the humor, the illustrations and the quality of the publication, but there is an aspect in it that really warms the heart and causes white envy. And it seems incredibly...
If you bite a cat by the tail, there is no tail!
Missing the good old pandemic? She came to you in a detective story! In the Far Forest, which we already know well, a new disease is progressing: the beast experiences an irresistible desire to bite its neighbor by the tail....
Oh, these fairy tales, oh, these storytellers!
Not only “The Nutcracker” - Hoffmann also has other fairy tales. One of the most significant is “The Golden Pot” about a young man who finds himself at the junction of two worlds - real and fairy-tale, their boundaries are...
Another destiny is somewhere nearby
To tell - not to tell, to tell - not to tell?. It is difficult to write about this book without spoilers. There is only one storyline, but a huge number of events, to retell which would mean depriving readers...
War cats are joining their ranks
Now this series is incredibly popular, but for some reason the first books, which appeared ten years ago, did not take off. They came out with illustrations by the amazing artist Igor Oleinikov. Usachev plus Oleinikov plus cats - success,...