A collection of funny short stories.

In the funny and witty poems by Georgy Ladonshchikov, the most ordinary things take on new unusual meanings, helping the child's development and awakening his interest in reading. Have you ever imagined that ordinary sand can be the best drawing board? Have you noticed how the river grows? Have you seen how the gray cat and the Watchdog play volleyball, and the starlings quarrel over housing...

Illustrated edition of the first book in Harry Potter series.

The series ‘Reader for Extracurricular Reading’ is a collection of poems, fairy tales, stories and tales from the main list of extracurricular reading for students in grades 1-5 of a comprehensive school. All works are divided by genre and are intended for independent reading and reading at school. The texts of the works are printed without abbreviations. Color illustrations.

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx's theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russian Revolution really inevitable? This collection of fourteen contributions from the world's leading Russian scholars attempts to answer the question by looking back at the key turning points of the...

Funny short stories for small children.

By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in...

Beautifully illustrated collection of short stories for children.

In Soviet Russia in 1927, a former member of nobility, Ippolit Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk, until his mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family’s dining room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, had been expropriated by the government after the Russian Revolution. He...