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.

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?

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

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...

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!

Splat can barely sit still during the bus ride. He's imagining the mountain of ice cream he thinks he'll get to eat! But when Splat gets there, that mountain becomes more of an avalanche. It's up to Splat and his classmates to save the day!

Splat loves watching his favorite superhero, Super Cat, on the family TV, but when the set breaks, Splat has no way to watch his cherished cartoon. Splat asks himself, 'What would Super Cat do?' and decides to save the day by winning a brand-new TV. The only problem is that winning the TV requires Splat to enter a cake-baking contest . . . which turns out to be a little trickier and stickier...

Splat's friends are having a band rehearsal for their rock band, the Cat Gang. They want Splat to play with them, too! But what will he play?

In this Level 1 I Can Read book, Splat, Spike, and Plank can't wait to go to the fair. But when Kitten can't come, the friends are determined to bring her back the perfect gift. Beginning readers will delight in Splat's hilarious attempts to find the perfect present.

t’s Valentine’s Day and Splat has a special valentine for a certain someone in his class. Her name is Kitten, and Splat likes her even more than fish sticks and ice cream. But Kitten doesn’t seem to like him at all. And then there’s Splat’s rival, Spike, who also likes Kitten. Will Splat’s heartfelt valentine win Kitten’s paw in the end?

It’s not Avi’s fault, it’s those sourish, mind-bending little berries that are to blame, those tiny wee spheres. Bilberries, bletherberries that befuddle the mind, babbleberries that give you a kick. The beautiful green forest scales, the timber songs, play out like a kaleidoscope before his eyes. It’s hard tae breathe, yer haunds skedaddle awa… In a camp at the edge of a forest children are...