This beautiful book contains six fairy tales by Josef Capek, a famous Czech artist, graphic artist, and book illustrator. Once, following the example of his younger brother Karel, the famous Czech writer, Josef took and composed fairy tales about a dog and a cat who lived in a house on the edge of the forest. These simple, kind and sweet stories immediately fell in love with all the kids,...

A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of...

Out of jail and up to no good, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are robbers on a mission. They've been stealing eggs from the fat red hen, and now they have their eyes set on the real prize-the fat red hen herself. They think their plan is foolproof, but they haven't counted on one very tiny, very quiet thing. The ladybug has outsmarted these bandits once-and she's ready to do it again!

A reprint of one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Published under the editorship of the expert of the Nabokov Foundation Andrei Babikov, correcting errors noticed and preserving some of the features of Nabokov's spelling, transliteration and punctuation. Now it is a classic of world literature, a novel that no connoisseur of fine and clever prose. The book entered the lists of the...

Igor Rabiner has been writing about the NHL since the 1990s and is familiar with all of our heroes. On the eve of the Olympics, Bomboraora releases his book in two volumes about the fantastic fates of Russian stars that still dominate the NHL. The heroes of the first book were Alexander Ovechkin from the Washington Capitals, Evgeni Malkin from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nikita Kucherov from '...

The author is an unusual person who, as if through a magical lens, looks at this world and sees how to change it for the better here and now: here she is spying on grandmothers in the supermarket to become their good fairy for the New Year, here she is trying to support a pensioner- a taxi driver, although you donÆt need to go anywhere, but he has a simple everyday conversation with his son and...

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...

Splat can't wait to try out his brand-new roller skates! But when it starts to rain, will Splat's fun day be ruined? Beginning readers will love the wordplay in this Splat story

Stargirl. From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of 'Stargirl, Stargirl.' She captures Leo Borlock' s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly shunned for everything that makes her...

Sasha, a young computer programmer from Leningrad, is driving north to meet some friends for a nature vacation. He picks up a couple of hitchhikers who persuade him to take a job at the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy. The adventures Sasha has in the largely dysfunctional institute involve all sorts of magical beings - a wish-granting fish, a tree mermaid, a...

Tatyana Tolstaya is a prose writer, publicist, TV presenter ('School of Scandal'), laureate of the Prize. Belkin ('Light Worlds'). Author of collections of short stories 'They sat on the golden porch ...', 'Day', 'Night', 'Raisins', 'Light Worlds', 'Invisible Maiden', etc. The novel 'Kys' was awarded the Triumph Prize and was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.