'Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?' Dozens of children respond to this peculiar newspaper ad and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it, they...

n lore as he confronts a shadow from his past. While others towns celebrate Halloween, in Eerie-on-Sea it’s Ghastly Night, and a grim spirit in a lantern awaits its moment. Legend has it that if people fail to light manglewick candles on Ghastly Night, and if no showman conjures shadow puppets on the pier as an offering, the insulted Shadowghast will seize and devour the shadows of the living....

This book is dedicated to the Trojan prophetess Cassandra. Lesya Ukrainka was interested in the fortuneteller's personality, her psychology. Cassandra has the feelings of an ordinary person: she doubts and hesitates, seeks to find the truth, suffers and submits to her fate.

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...

Six little kittens found themselves on the winter street, where they are cold and hungry... But they are not the type to whine and despair. Instead, the kittens get together and turn winter into fun: they play in snowsuits, build a maze in the snow, pretending to be archaeologists, and build a very cozy snow cat house. And then they find something to decorate it with. Kitten heroes will...

Thanks to this cardboard box, your little one will be able to travel far, far - even to the jungle and savannah. And find out who lives there and what these colorful animals are called not only in Ukrainian, but also in English. And Olena Zabara, who sewed a giraffe, a lion, a crocodile and other animals from felt, the photos of which illustrate the book, is a creative mother who loves books...

nted 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 Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor,...

Illustrated by Vladislav Erko. In Ukraininan.

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 unab

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 Ame

Every time the streets erupt with communist demonstrations. The director of the Viennese police receives a message that at the same time two young states, the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, are demanding the extradition of a certain Adam Vistowicz, the chief commissioner from Lemberg, Galicia. Why did a humble policeman interest the highest diplomatic circles? Will it be possible to...

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.