The incomparable Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) wrote her masterpiece, the drama-extravaganza 'Forest Song' in distant lands, when she missed her homeland very much. And to my dear Kolodyazhnyi, where 'on a moonlit night I ran alone into the forest and waited there for Mavka to appear to me. I was fascinated by this image for the rest of my life.' It is evident that this longing inspired the...

One morning in December, the long winter sleep of the Moomin family was interrupted. The world outside the walls of the house changed beyond recognition: something white and mysterious covered the entire Moomin Valley, there and there were dreamers and gemuls, hung with gifts and packages with festive snacks and drinks. Everyone was in excited anticipation of something headed for Moomin Valley....

The 'Ukrzaliznytsia' train rushes through the golden fields. Eva returns home with her mother and new friends from her longest journey. During the full-scale war, the girl, like many Ukrainian children, had to board an evacuation train and go as far as possible from home, fleeing from tanks, rockets and bombs. 'Home by Train' is a sensitive story by Maryana Savka, illustrated by Marta...

Rabbit loves carrots a little too much. In fact, his carrots are crowding him out of his cozy burrow. When his friends offer to help, they're just asking for trouble, a lot of trouble! This charming and lovingly illustrated children's book, by acclaimed author Katy Hudson (A Loud Winter's Nap and Bear and Duck), shows how friendships get us over the rough spots in life, even if the going gets a...

Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love - and capturing every moment of it on her blog.

When people learned to use fire, it changed their lives. Later they invented gunpowder, Greek fire, explosives and firearms. Gunsmiths experimented, alchemists and chemists combined various elements and obtained unexpected reactions and explosive mixtures. And now we have combat poisons and nuclear weapons, an eternal source of energy, which at the same time can cause man-made disasters and...

The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons. Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she's not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up...

It is no coincidence that the memory of crimes in which not external forces, but your own state is to blame, is called the 'difficult past'. Recognizing one's own responsibility without shifting it to external or internal enemies, time and circumstances is incredibly difficult psychologically, politically and legally. Only at first glance it seems that there are many examples of such...

Old man Pettson was looking for a bag of fishing floats in the attic. Findus jumped on a large green canvas sausage, which bounced him downstairs. 'Why do you have such dangerous sausages lying about in the attic?' scolded Findus. 'That's a tent,' Pettson said. He started to dream how much fun it would be to camp by the lake and grill fish over the fire as the sun set...That's not exactly how...

Oh, the same goat-dereza!.. Because of her, the grandfather got rid of his sons, wife and peace, and the bunny could not enter his hut. She scared a bunny, a bear, a wolf, a fox to death... But there is one good man in the world who is not afraid of this animal. Who is he? Where did it come from?.. Only those who read this book, which was drawn with great wit by the well-known Ukrainian artist...

A fun fairy tale for the smallest, where the author tells her story casually and easily, clearly understanding the interests and age capabilities of a small reader.