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Hot northern gods
It is advisable to know the myths of the peoples of the world at least in general terms, don’t you agree? There are a lot of references to mythology in both classical and modern art and culture. But their full...
The fox appeals to conscience again
There is a war going on. Peter's father goes to the front, but first he must take his son to his grandfather, because there is no one else to take care of the boy: his mother died several years ago....
Strawberries are already on the table!
You can’t find a better game for kids than “Strawberry Paths”! Firstly, this is not a walking game, nor a card game - it has a very unusual gameplay of three short stages. The game is played quickly and, thanks...
Genuine pigtails from Scandinavia
Friends of the watershed Fox and Piglet live in the forest. The Fox is a little older, so he has the right to talk nonsense with an authoritative air, which Piglet blindly believes. In fact, both children, Piglet follows his...
Great children's detective stories
Simply magical! Although there is no trace of magic in the stories about Kalle Blumkvist. But there is magic - the magic of Astrid Lindgren. If you have read one of her best works, “We are all from Bullerby,” you...
Silence on the site! Camera. Motor. Shooting.
General plan: panorama of the Soviet summer city. Approaching: boulevard, fountain, children playing, mothers walking with strollers, citizens rushing about business. A girl, Katya, about ten years old, is walking along the boulevard in a short dress, with two pigtails...
Dog in a bag
"What I like about black swans is their red nose. However, this has nothing to do with our story." "The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov" is a Soviet children's classic. A detective story with chases, shootouts, police, ambushes and the main...
The cheerful life of milk bacteria
"If you eat one glass of ice cream - nothing, the second - still nothing, but if you eat the third - Anginka lives there." Anginka is a friend of Petka’s microbe; it makes the temperature rise. Petka himself and...
Oh Gods!
A cool sequel to The Brutal Detective, and The Brutal Detective is a high-quality representative of the genre. If you are familiar with the first part, I recommend reading this one too. If you are not familiar yet, then it...
What do we mean in this world?
Maxwell is 12 years old, and it seems to him that everything in his life is wrong: his parents are constantly quarreling, his older sister is a bore and a nerd, there are only problems at school, his best friend...
Do you care about Indian problems?
You hardly read Averchenko as a child (of course! There was no one willing to publish the author of a collection called “A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution”!), but now it’s very, very worth reading! His stories...
Wild but cute
A young man unexpectedly becomes the owner of a wolf cub. He doesn’t yet know how to behave with his new pet, but he is determined to train him. The wolf will have to live in a city apartment and...
Phenomenal book of fairy tales
These two bug-eyed idiots will now tell you fairy tales, and these fairy tales will be completely new, magical, funny, and most importantly, before each fairy tale there are instructions for reading and it is imperative, you simply must follow...
School from the past
Alyosha is a first-grader, he is the smallest among the students, for which he received the nickname Two Briefcases: he is exactly that tall. It doesn't seem to be evil, but it's offensive. And now I don’t even want to...
Chick and Bricks
We know Axel Scheffler well from his illustrations for The Gruffalo and other books by Julia Donaldson. His characters turned out to be so beautiful and bright that they became iconic in children's literature, and last year the UK even...
Traveling with the wind
Distant, unknown countries, icebergs and volcanoes... What could be better than travel, right? The girl Asta invites you to fly, she lives in St. Petersburg and has the wonderful ability to travel with the wind, let's fly! We will visit...
Physics in comics
Almost like the magazine "Tram"! I don’t know why, but I have exactly these associations. Probably because the timing coincided: this book was also published in the 90s. But now the publishing house "Oblaka" has republished two parts of "Discovering...
Daddy's dragon
Not a parable. Not psychedelic. Not emotional intelligence. What then?? Rarity: just the cutest and funny fairy tale! A boy (for a number of reasons) went to a wild island, lost in the ocean, in order to save a baby...
Nikitin cubes
Educators claim that cubes are generally one of the most useful toys that have been invented in the entire history of mankind. With them, the child learns to manipulate objects, distinguish between parts and the whole, build, seek balance, navigate...
Fairy tales in the style of great artists
What fairy tale would Salvador Dali illustrate? Which artist would undertake to illustrate Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid”? And if you had to draw pictures for the dark fairy tale “Bluebeard”, who would you invite? These unusual books appeared in our...
Touching stories for preschoolers
This is a rarity before us. Russian-language books on ecology for children are not often found. And here are two at once and with what illustrations! Let's be honest, the illustrations here generally come first, and the text is secondary....