Here are collected the best Eastern fairy tales - with unimaginable fairy tale plots, beauties, cunning and all-seeing spirits, stupid rich people and wise poor people. It turns out that the fairy tale is much closer - you just have to open the book!

Aksakov writes about nature in an interesting way and often from a child's point of view. Boys fishing. Children playing robbers. Night gatherings around the campfire. All this is close and easy to read, literally in one gulp. These are wise stories, wise and kind, although not without touching or funny moments.

We will introduce you to the most powerful hero of Ancient Greece - Hercules. Together with him, you will defeat the Nemean lion and the Lernaean Hydra, catch the Ceryneian hind and get the apples of the Hesperides, visit Troy and Olympus. The book was illustrated by the famous St. Petersburg artist Dmitry Prokopyev.

Can a cat and a dog become friends? Of course! If their third friend is a Crow, and not just any Crow, but a Sly Crow. That's how a friendly company appeared - Dog, Cat and Sly Crow. Now they are not afraid of dog trucks, cat-catchers and one-eared bullies, because friends will find a way out of any situation.

This book contains wonderful fairy tales about animals that children love so much and that every child simply must read! After all, they are filled with real unusual things, joy and wisdom! ‘The Tiger Cub on a Sunflower’, ‘The Gray Neck’, ‘The Traveling Frog’ - what could be wiser and more fun than these fairy tales, in which you can fly with ducks and a frog, and grow a sunflower with a tiger...

An evil stepmother sent her kind, hardworking stepdaughter into the forest in winter, to certain death, to pick snowdrops for the queen. But a miracle happened - all twelve months gathered together to help the girl, and spring came for a short time in the middle of the cold winter. What will happen to the stepmother, her evil daughter, and the wayward queen when they want the months to do the...

The play teaches not to turn away from those who need help, because it is always easier to cope with difficulties together.

Amazing illustrations by the artist Yu. Korovin, an outstanding master of children's illustration, complement the atmosphere of joy from reading beautiful poetic lines.

Not all microbes are harmful. Petka is actually useful. Without people like him, we wouldn't have sour cream or kefir. There are so many microbes in one drop of water that you can't count them. You need a microscope to see these little ones. But maybe they are also looking at us - from the other side of the magnifying glass?

Get ready to laugh out loud, because this book contains the best harmful advice about school, friends and parents, and also about girls and boys! Uncle Kolya Vorontsov tried and drew very funny illustrations for each piece of advice. All you have to do is read carefully and look at the pictures!

Georgy Alekseevich's stories about his native nature are so interesting and colorful that several cartoons ‘Forest Travelers’ (1951) and ‘In the Forest Thicket’ (1954) (co-authored with Vera Chaplina) were made based on them.