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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:...
Does 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 climbs the steps and lights the lighthouse fire, it seems like her duty, but at the same...
In all of you, darling, outfits are good!
A charming fairy tale a little about toys in the nursery, a little about outfits, a little about forest animals, and in general about friendship and kind hearts. The old doll was brought from the attic, washed, combed, a simple...
Hot northern gods
It is desirable to know the myths of the peoples of the world at least in general terms, don't you agree? There are too many references to mythology in both classical and modern art and culture. But their full text...
Fox calls back to conscience
There is a war going on. Peter's father is going 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...
Strawberries are already on the table!
There is no better game for kids than Strawberry Trails! Firstly, it is not a board game, and not a card game - it has a very unusual gameplay of three short stages. The game is played quickly and, thanks...
Genuine piglets from Scandinavia
Inseparable friends Fox and Piglet live in the forest. Fox is a little older, so he has the right to talk nonsense with an air of authority, which Piglet blindly believes. In fact, both are children, Piglet follows his older...
Great children's detectives
Simply magical! Although there is no magic in the stories about Kalle Blomkvist. But there is magic - the magic of Astrid Lindgren. If you have read one of her best works, "We Are All from Bullerby", you will understand:...
Silence on the site! Camera. Motor. Shooting.
General plan: panorama of a Soviet summer city. Zoom in: boulevard, fountain, children playing, mothers walking with strollers, citizens hurrying about their business. A girl named Katya, about ten years old, in a short dress, with two pigtails, is walking...
A 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...
Merry life of dairy bacteria
"If you eat one cup of ice cream - it's okay, the second one - it's also okay, but if you eat the third one - there lives Angina." Angina is a friend of the microbe Petka, he makes the...
Oh gods!
A great sequel to "Beastly Detective," and "Beastly Detective" is a high-quality representative of the genre. If you are familiar with the first part, I recommend reading this one as well. If you are not familiar with it yet, it...
What are we significant in this world
Maxwell is 12 years old and it seems to him that everything in his life is wrong: his parents are constantly arguing, his older sister is a bore and a nerd, he has problems at school, and his best friend...
Are the problems of the Indians who worry you ?
You probably didn't read Averchenko as a child (of course! No one wanted to publish the author of a collection called "A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution"!), but now it's really, really worth reading! His stories most...
Wild, but pretty
A young man unexpectedly becomes the owner of a wolf cub. He does not yet know how to behave with a new pet, but is determined to train it. The wolf will have to live in a city apartment and...
The phenomenal book of fairy tales
These two goggle-eyed blockheads 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 they must, simply must be followed. If...
School from the past
Alyosha is a first-grader, he is the smallest among the students, for which he received the nickname Two-Portfolio: that is exactly his height. It seems not evil, but offensive. And now I don’t want to go to school, and nothing...
Chick and Briki
We know Axel Scheffler well from his illustrations for "The Gruffalo" and other books by Julia Donaldson. His characters turned out so wonderful and bright that they became iconic in children's literature, and last year Great Britain even issued stamps...
Traveling with the wind
Distant, unknown countries, icebergs and volcanoes... What could be better than traveling, right? A girl named Asta invites you to fly, she lives in St. Petersburg and has a wonderful ability to travel with the wind, fly-e-e-e! We will visit...
Physics in comics
Almost like the magazine "Tramvai"! I don't know why, but I have exactly these associations. Probably because the timing coincided: this book was also published in the 90s. And now the publishing house "Oblaka" has reissued two parts of "Discovering...
Papin Dragon
Not a parable. Not psychedelic. Not emotional intelligence. What then? Rarity: simply the cutest and funniest fairy tale! A boy (for a number of reasons) goes to a wild island lost in the ocean with the goal of rescuing a...