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.