The story-tale "Old Man Hottabych" was published in 1938 and has since become one of the most beloved children's books. For several generations of boys and girls in our country, they have been reading with pleasure about the adventures of a genie who came from the time of Tsar Solomon to the Soviet country in the late 1930s. And it doesn’t matter that the book was written almost a hundred years ago, because the story of how the pioneer Volka Kostylkov fished out an old jug in the river and let the genie out of it is a really kind, funny and fascinating one. It has been translated into many languages, including English, German, Czech, Bulgarian, Chinese…
Its author, Lazar Iosifovich Ginzburg, who wrote under the pseudonym L. Lagin, wrote several more books, but thanks to "Old Man Hottabych" his name will forever remain in the history of children's literature.
Author: Lazar Lagin
Illustrations: Nikolai Shevarev
Pages: 208 (offset). Hard cover
Series: Library of children's classics
