Ian Leopoldovich Larry is a science fiction writer. His story “The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya,” written in 1937, was an incredible success. The story has been republished and filmed several times. And it was written at the request of Samuel Marshak, who wanted to attract the attention of children's audiences to science and entomology - the science of insects.
In a fascinating adventure form, the writer tells many interesting facts about the plants and insects that surround us.
Imagine that you have shrunk to the size of a grain of sand and now everything around you: grass, raindrops, mushrooms, insects - seems in dozens, or even hundreds of times more than you. This happened to Karik and Valya. After drinking the magic elixir, they shrink so much that now even a small bug seems to them the size of a five-story building. It’s good that the quick-witted professor Ivan Germogenovich Enotov realized what had happened and immediately went in search of the guys. Ahead of the heroes lies a long, difficult and dangerous journey home.
Never drink magic elixirs without permission!
The book is being published for the first time with new illustrations, thanks to which the artist Natalya Demidova became a laureate of the International Book Illustration Competition “Image of a Book.”
Author: Ian Larry
Illustrations: Natalia Demidova
Pages: 368 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 265x206x24 mm
