Korney Chukovsky believed that "children live in the fourth dimension" and that one must speak to them in the "language of this other world," that one must "adopt its images and peculiar logic." In this fourth dimension, events always unfold rapidly and unpredictably: the telephone rings incessantly, sieves and plates gallop across fields and meadows, and bears and other animals masterfully operate bicycles and various vehicles. Chukovsky's characters are always in motion, caught up in an endless chain of events. But for the artist Anatoly Eliseev, this proves to be not enough. His drawings are worth a closer look. And then you will learn the route of the little tram in which the bunny rabbits are riding and munching on gingerbread. You will find out how the mice caught the cat, what kind of unusual rope the tadpoles are jumping over, and whom the frogs flying through the sky are carrying to southern lands. Carrying them, right to Zanzibar, the Kalahari Desert, or the Limpopo River.
Contents:
Doctor Aybolit and Other Stories
Fly-Tsokotuha
The Monster Cockroach
The Muddle
The Stolen Sun
Fedora's Sorrow
The Telephone
Moydodyr
Doctor Aybolit
The Crocodile
The Miracle Tree and Other Poems
The Miracle Tree
What Mura Did When She Was Read the Tale of the "Miracle Tree"
Joy
Tadpoles
The Sandwich
Zakalyaka
Bebeka
The Piglet
The Elephant Cow Reads
Little Pigs
Fedotka
The Turtle
The Christmas Tree
English Folk Songs
The Brave Ones
The Crooked Song
Barabek (How to Tease a Glutton)
Kotausi and Mausi
Jenny
The Chicken
25 Riddles — 25 Answers
The Adventures of Bibigon
Author: Korney Chukovsky
Illustrations: Anatoly Eliseev
Pages: 240 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 200x260 mm
