Award-winning artist Jim Kay illustrates year two of Harry Potter's adventures at Hogwarts, in a stunning, gift-ready format. The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if...

Mulle, along with his dog Buffa, traveled around the world for a long time - first by car, then by boat. And then they sailed to an unfamiliar rocky shore, and there they come across an abandoned bicycle repair shop. Around the pieces of iron are differen

Incredible events are taking place in the Paris Zoo: a one-eyed Polar Wolf and a little African boy silently tell each other stories, one more amazing than the other. In two pupils - a boy's and a wolf's - flash, replacing each other, the snow-covered Tundra, yellow, gray and green Africa. Somewhere in the past, gunshots are heard, screams are heard, the noise of propellers and the howl of...

The life of little Anya flows measuredly and happily. In the summer - in the village, with blueberry glades, and tall pines and a warm lake. And in the winter in Moscow, with the Tretyakov Gallery and gifts from the Children's World. But one day this life ends. Anna now lives in New York. While her parents are studying at the university, she goes to an American school, eats sandwiches with jam...

Illustrated by Vladislav Erko. In Ukraininan.

The earth is so huge, and there are so many houses on it! Big and small. Beautiful and ugly. New buildings and ruins. And there is also a very tiny house of Carlson, who lives on the roof. Carlson is sure that this is the best house in the world and the best Carlson in the world lives in it.

The adventure story of the classic of American literature Jack London describes the events that take place during the gold rush in Alaska. Its main character is White Fang, half-wolf, half-dog. The cruel and harsh world that surrounds him from birth threatens with imminent death, and only a meeting with a kind owner becomes a salvation for the White Fang. This book is about the all-conquering...

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) is one of the most important poets of the 20th century. His works, addressed to the adult reader, have become classics of Soviet literature. But Mayakovsky is no less famous as the author of poems for children. Cheerful, mischievous, playful, in an entertaining way they teach children to distinguish good from bad, to be kind and honest, not to be lazy, to strive...

Grade 4 Up-Harry has just returned to Hogwarts after a lonely summer. Dumbledore is uncommunicative and most of the students seem to think Harry is either conceited or crazy for insisting that Voldemort is back and as evil as ever. Angry, scared, and unable to confide in his godfather, Sirius, the teen wizard lashes out at his friends and enemies alike. The head of the Ministry of Magic is...

It’s winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she’s sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person...