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...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya once invented these stories for her children, and after many years her grandchildren also read them. They learned about the old tram, which dreams of the sea, about the Vegetarian Spider, who prefers strawberries to flies, about the Tadpole, who becomes a Frog, but does not forget old friends. These 'tales' will teach the youngest readers not to be afraid to dream and not to...

It is difficult to find something as funny, talented and witty in our literature as this outstanding book by Vsevolod Nestaik, who is often called the Gogol of modern Ukrainian children's literature. It is not for nothing that 'Toreadors from Vasyukivka' has been translated into twenty languages and is included in Andersen's Especially Honorable List as one of the greatest works of world...

Baguette, a seemingly ordinary house cat, is a descendant of the magic Catlanteans who lived long ago in peace and happiness on the island of Catlantis. When he falls in love with the seductive alley cat Purriana, she insists Baguette accomplish a heroic feat before she’ll agree to marriage. They pay a visit to the oracle, Purriana’s great-great grandmother, who reveals to the surprised...

In the finale of the four-book Beastly Crimes series, Chief Badger faces his most bizarre case yet, in which someone is plucking and burning the feathers of birds in the Far Woods. To make things even worse, the top suspect is his former assistant, young Badgercat. Chief Badger knows that Badgercat can't possibly be the Plucker, so who plucked Lady Cuckoo and attacked the owl twins, Chuck and...