In Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales, the main characters are fairies, elves, ghosts, spirits of the dead, and among them are ordinary Englishmen, the fairy tale is intertwined with reality, and the horrors of the other world are not inferior to the cruelty of reality. Magical, terrible and moderately morally educational reading.

'All my life I dreamed of becoming a rock musician, but the pressure, adventurism and arrogance was only enough to write texts for reading from the stage and performing them to a merciful and patient audience. But an unfulfilled desire is worse than caries. Sooner or later I will have to deal with it. I have a musical education no, voices too, hearing within the limits of physiological...

Splat is really excited about going camping-until his mom tells him she has invited his rival, Spike. Will Spike ruin Splat's trip? Or maybe Splat will learn that his worst enemy isn't so different from him after all..

Clickity clack, clickity clack . . . Splat's bicycle bumps and jumps over the bumpy track on his way to school, until . . . crack! Splat takes a tumble off of his bike and finds himself nose to beak with a duck. A crash of this caliber should certainly merit some alarm from this duck, but Splat hears no sound. A duck with no quack? Splat thinks that his teacher, Mrs. Wimpydimple, will know what...

In the ninth book in the Ciocia Jadzia series, she tells stories from her childhood, which fell on the times of the People's Republic of Poland. It turns out that these are interesting and even exotic stories, because how can you believe that there was often only vinegar in the shops, and there were long queues for toilet paper? Or that there were no computers or mobile phones, and children...

The friendly Matilda is back! This time the swashbuckling cow is playing hide and seek with her friends from the farm. She finds the best hiding place where no one can find her - she climbs a tree. However, it turns out that he has trouble getting back to earth. Fortunately, her friends, the housekeeper, and finally - the reliable postman will help her.

The hostess, as every evening, reads everyone a bedtime story. However, Matilda cannot fall asleep. Hug the hostess? Crouch next to the hens? This idea does not arouse widespread enthusiasm. Matilda makes a lot of fuss around. The housekeeper's bed breaks down and the chicken roost is completely devastated after Matilda tries to climb on it. At the end, the whole village is awake.