Аркадий Гайдар – человек-легенда. О его жизни рассказывали самые небывалые истории, и все они – чистая правда. Он же говорил о себе: «Это была обыкновенная биография и необыкновенное время». В 14 лет он ушёл на Гражданскую войну, в 17 – командовал полком, а погиб на фронте уже Великой Отечественной войны. Писать стал в 20-е годы ХХ столетия и в своих произведениях создал счастливую страну, в...

Николай Васильевич Гоголь (1809–1852). Многие его произведения входят в школьную программу, в том числе «Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки» – удивительные по своей атмосфере и содержанию повести. Именно после публикации этого сборника на писателя обратили внимание в литературных кругах, а Александр Сергеевич Пушкин отметил особую поэтичность, веселость и непринужденность произведения. Мистические...

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

Billy and his sister, Sheena, are visiting their uncle Dr. Deep on a tiny Caribbean island. It's the perfect place to go exploring underwater...and Billy's ready for an adventure.There's only one rule to remember: Stay away from the coral reefs. Still, th

Three wonderful fairy tales ‘The Disheveled Sparrow’, ‘The Steel Ring’ and ‘Warm Bread’ are not like fairy tales. These are stories about ordinary children who believe in miracles, and therefore miracles happen to them.

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will—a boy on the run, a murderer—a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching—Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father—but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will...

Tom the Rabbit's family is moving. Mom and Dad are packing their things. Will Tom really have to leave his beloved home, room, friends? What if he can't make friends with anyone in the new place? Little Tom will have to get used to the new environment, but his old friends won't forget about him either! Tom is a baby whose life is full of events: going to kindergarten, the birth of a little...

Lindy names the ventriloquist's dummy she finds Slappy. Slappy is kind of ugly, but he's a lot of fun. Lindy's having a great time learning to make Slappy move and talk. But Kris is jealous of all the attention her sister is getting. It's no fair. Why does Lindy always have all the luck?Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She'll show Kris. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things....

Увлекательныая и красочная книга познакомит ребенка с окружающим миром, расширит его кругозор и пробудит интерес к знаниям. Издание входит в длинную ассортиментную линейку серии 'Детская энциклопедия', которую отличает великолепное полиграфическое исполнение, интересное содержание, современный дизайн, яркие фотоиллюстрации. Соотношение цена\качество делает ее уникальным предложением на рынке.

The book of the famous Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (real name Aleksey Ivanovich Eremeev) includes fairy tales, as well as stories about children - 'Honest Word', 'The Letter' You ',' Coward 'and others that have long become classics and occupy a worthy place in golden fund of children's literature.