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Russian animation: Mountain of Gems
"Mountain of Gems" is the largest project in the history of Russian animation. It was created based on the fairy tales of the peoples of Russia by the Pilot studio under the leadership of Alexander Tatarsky by the best modern...
We're announcing an Easter egg hunt!
And congratulations to everyone on the start of the long weekend! For these pre-Easter days, we have come up with a new competition. It starts now and ends at noon on Sunday, April 1st (East Coast). On our website www.karuselbooks.com we hid...
Let's play on Easter
Easter is coming, this year Catholic and Orthodox are a week apart. We will be holding a very interesting promotion on our website and Facebook page to coincide with Catholic Easter, don’t miss it! And at home with the children...
Make it to the Canadian border in time
When is it too early to read to children? And when is it too late?
Such courageous girls
In my opinion, a significant drawback of many Soviet works for children is their propaganda nature. It is clear that the entire system of education and upbringing was built on nurturing the younger generation in the spirit of socialism, and...
Science is fashionable!
They say that it is important to develop an interest in science in childhood, so that later the sparks of curiosity will flare up into a flame. The thirst for knowledge is inherent in any child, but it is very...
New on the site: create your list of desired gifts and receive a credit of 10% of the order amount!
Your child’s birthday is coming up, and you don’t want him to be overwhelmed again with a mountain of plastic toys that he will abandon the very next day? Grandparents want to congratulate the child, but cannot because they live...
You need to warn about such things!
I asked my husband on his 30th birthday what advice he would give to himself now if he could go back 10 years. “Buy Bitcoin,” he blurted out without thinking. Damn, exactly... And I was waiting for an answer about...
It's Maslenitsa for the cat
In Moscow, the “Moscow Seasons” festival is now held with or without reason; these are festive events during which the city is decorated thematically, fairs, concerts, and exhibitions are held, available to everyone. Moreover, in addition to the main venues...
Girl, girl, a coffin on wheels is looking for your street...
Remember our favorite horror stories? About a red hand, green fingers and a black sheet. Or this one: in one black, black city... Or about the hatch in the wall and the hands from the picture? And about the skeleton...
Wanderlust
There are two of us, and we run this blog and our website together. There have always been two of us, since childhood. First we studied in the same music school, then in the same school, then in different institutes,...
Are the classics that good?
As one famous movie said, “The world is changing. Music is changing. Even drugs are changing.” And children's literature doesn't stand still either. Many books are becoming irrelevant, and I’m not even talking now about outdated realities (pioneer childhood, for...
Melodiya records
A unique genre - audio fairy tales from the Melodiya studio - has quietly become a thing of the past. These are not just fairy tales read in different voices - these are independent works, with a script written for...
The world of ideas and things
We are sometimes surprised by the attitude of modern children towards things: it is difficult to surprise them with gifts, they do not save toys, and they also choose sweets! They are completely different, not like us as children. Is this good or bad?
Learning to read
How good it is to be able to read! But how difficult it is to teach and learn this :( Not only technically, but also morally: the child gets tired quickly, is distracted, fidgets, the parent forces him, is nervous,...
Nostalgia for childhood
I simultaneously timidly and impatiently enter the room where the New Year's miracle must have already happened. Here, on a stool intricately decorated with cotton wool, my beauty, a one and a half meter high PVC Christmas tree, grinned with...
How to properly prepare for Christmas
First of all, we write a letter to Santa Claus. He is happy to receive any messages - letters, drawings, collages - he will receive everything, read it, and hang the best letters on the wall. And he will definitely...
The Gruffalo, the Giant, the Witch on a Broom and Other Creatures by Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson's books, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, you can start reading very early, and they last a long time. They have been on our shelf for four years now, and the collection is constantly growing. Minimum text, in verse, full-page...
Why don't children read
When I was six years old and had not yet gone to school, I independently read Dunno, all its parts. I had this thick green book with almost no pictures, and in the summer I sat on the couch all...