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"Strugatskie" for children
Like the famous Soviet science fiction brothers, the story told is science-fiction and at the same time very earthly. Asking many unanswered questions. (In fact, the author is a modern Russian writer). The narrative begins suddenly, the reader is not...
Add a pinch of magic to your life
You will be enchanted by this book as soon as it falls into your hands - it is so beautiful! The book has no illustrations, but is so elegantly designed, as if you were holding some precious thing in your...
To distant shores
It is difficult to find a yellow woodpecker in a green jungle, especially if it is not there. Yes, the woodpecker has nothing to do with it at all, the book is about a brother and sister who play very...
Christmas pig time
Any book by JK Rowling is doomed to be compared to Harry Potter. In my opinion, it is clear that she will not write something as powerful as GP, because it is hardly possible to create two such works in...
Money is not a vice
"Money, money, rubbish,Forgetting peace and laziness.Make money, make money,And the rest is all rubbish." In the Soviet Union, only greedy and evil pirates from the cartoon about Treasure Island could sing this, but worthy citizens firmly knew and instilled in...
Animals of unprecedented beauty walk there
The game "Territory" is basically a lotto, but, of course, not an ordinary one, but with add-ons, tricks and fantasies. The bottom line is that each player needs to place as many enclosures with as many animals as possible on...
Once upon a time in the Russian north
Everyone knows Bianchi, Darrell, Seton-Thompson, but such a wonderful Soviet (and living) naturalist writer as Viktor Potievsky is undeservedly little known. Have you heard of him? He is an excellent wildlife storyteller. Two stories - "Maga Leads the Pack" and...
Move to the fireplaces, prepare rocking chairs
The best time to read this book is autumn... Although the narrative here unfolds throughout the year, autumn is still the most contemplative time, and in this book little happens, a minimum of events - a maximum of descriptions. Now...
Red like autumn
Mr. Fox is perfection. He is a thief and a swindler. He is smart, dexterous, fearless and elegant. He is driven by a thirst for risk and is always full of ideas. This magnificent man has a beautiful wife, who...
Old school wizards
Hogwarts is not the only educational institution for wizards - in Poland there is also the Academy of Pan the Blob, an eccentric professor, scientist, magician and magician. Pan Blob can turn into a baby while he sleeps, which is...
Scandinavia without hygge
A book for all mythology lovers. The first part contains the myths of the Britons, which in itself is valuable: publications with the legends of King Arthur, translated for children, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And...
Black and white
One day my husband, vigorously and sincerely admiring some small achievement of mine, said: “Well, you are my golden wife! Just golden, there’s nowhere to put samples!” I was taken aback and silently stared at him. He, sensing something was...
Well, it begins!
Something has happened to my memory. I remember everything that was not with me... I was born in the eighties, and I did not see any separate education in schools, no classes of 40 people, or even desks with lids...
Things from days gone by
This book reads like a fairy tale, although it is a serious historical work. That is why it is republished again and again, and yet it was written 200 years ago! Pushkin himself spoke with delight about it: “Today I...
Fundamental and applied physics against the backdrop of the Pacific tropics
Four friends, thirteen years old, were sitting on a summer day on the banks of the Moscow River and were bored, waiting for a trip to the pioneer camp. It was the holidays, there was nothing to do. It's the...
Affectionate and gentle animals
"Beastly Tales" is a spin-off of the famous "Beastly Detective" by Anna Starobinets, that is, a work about the same heroes, but chronologically and event-wise not connected with "Detective". These are very cool fairy tales, unlike anything else in children's...
DIY magical worlds
The idea of ​​the book "Magic City" is both extremely simple and very original. I have not come across any other story on this topic, but surely any child dreams of being in a reality he has imagined, as happened...
Around the Baltics in a red van
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)...
Carefully! Falling!
Many have heard that rabbits are a natural disaster in Australia, but few know that Australia was once attacked by... a cactus! Previously, prickly pear grew only in South America, and the British brought it to Australia for economic reasons:...
Sunny North
This beautiful book contains the author's Scandinavian fairy tales: Topelius, Selma Lagerlöf and other authors - Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. Although this is not entirely correct, because Finland is not part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia is made up of three countries:...
Can the sailor see the lighthouse?
There will be spoilers. Lampeshka is about 10 years old, she lives with her one-legged father at the lighthouse. Every evening the girl goes up the steps and lights a fire on the lighthouse, it’s as if it’s her duty,...