Children's literature. Remember what we read as children? Wonderful colorful books. We went to the library for them or borrowed from friends and acquaintances.
But it was almost impossible to buy Volkov or Bulychev, Stevenson or Dumas. But there were always ways to read the desired book
I remember that I learned to read early enough. Already in the senior group of the kindergarten, they constantly ran up to me with requests to read. And he was enrolled in the library as a preschooler. Let's remember those books that we read in childhood. I will not remember about baby books and the like - an incredible number of them have been read. Here I will remember those publications that were "more serious"
This is what my first handbook looked like.
"The Adventures of Buratino" with wonderful illustrations by Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky. It was read literally to the holes

Here is another "picture book" that I really liked. Unfortunately, there was no such house, but I was in kindergarten, where I read it aloud to my classmates

But at home there was "The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends"

True, only the first book. Therefore, the second part

And the most brilliant third, I took to read already from friends

I liked Chukovsky very much. "Aibolit" could be borrowed from the library

But this one, "Miracle Tree", was at home

But, of course, the most beloved in childhood were books from the series "The Wizard of the Emerald City"

And only with illustrations by Vladimirsky

Since then, I simply do not perceive publications with other illustrations, although there are quite good ones (I have been going to make a post for a long time about different illustrations for Volkov)

These books were hard to get even in the library.

Therefore, they had to be read not in order, but "which one I could get."

Some, therefore, I already read quite late

And this is what the very first edition of this fairy tale looked like.

What else comes to mind ...

I remember I was very fascinated by the "Muff, Polbootinka and Mokhovaya beard" taken from the library

We must not forget the fairy tales about brother Fox and brother Rabbit.

There were many fairy tales. But the favorite of the fairy tales is "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Ershov

I liked "Hottabych" very much

And they were completely delighted with the "Sailing Solnyshkin"

It was impossible to get around and "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel" (though I liked the cartoon more than the book)

Barankin

But this book I once found at school, being the cafeteria attendant. And I could not tear myself away from her. When the owner came, it was a pity to give it away without having finished reading

I liked Kaverin's "Two Captains"


And Rybakov's trilogy

Amusing adventures of Vasya Kurolesov

Well, this is a classic of children's literature, also read to the holes

And I liked the adventures of Huck Finn even more than the first book.

For a long time I did not give this children's detective to the library - it was written very interesting

And of course fantastic

Two of Bulychev's favorite books. After they gave them to me in the library for science fiction, I was hooked specifically

But I liked the film about Electronics more. But I read the book anyway

But the most delight of children's fiction was from the books of Krapivin

Later, there was already Belyaev

and Obruchev

Invisible Man

But we not only read fiction. There was also wonderful adventure literature. Jules Verne

Daniel Defoe

Alexandr Duma

Jack London

Robert Stevenson

Conan Doyle

And I also had the most-favorite book of my childhood.


Once again I remembered that the first book I read when I was a kindergartener was "Uncle Fyodor, Dog and Cat" by Uspensky, the same book that was later used to make the cartoon "Three from Prostokvashino." And then I suddenly remembered that there was another book by Ouspensky, which I had read in deep childhood - probably forgotten by many "Warranty Men". And I was surprised to find on Wikipedia that the very Russian "Fixies" that modern children are looking at are the modern "reincarnation" of "guaranteed little men".


"Warranty Men" is a fairy tale by Eduard Uspensky about little men living inside devices and mechanisms and repairing them during the warranty period. First published in the Pioneer magazine in 1974 (No. 1, pp. 64-75 and No. 2, pp. 44-55) with illustrations by E. Shabelnik. In 1975 it came out as a separate edition with drawings by G. Kalinovsky. There is also a dramatic version of the text for puppet theaters.
In the 2010s, the plot of the story became the basis for the animated series "The Fixies", and Eduard Uspensky released a sequel to the story entitled "The Warranty Men Return".


In the world in which the story takes place, very small guarantee men live next to people - masters who monitor the operation of all kinds of devices during the period when the guarantee is valid. Warranty men are sent from factories together with the devices, and after the warranty period expires, they return to their factory to start work on a new device. "Warranty", as they call themselves, live directly inside the devices (clocks, car motors, refrigerators, etc.) and lead a life imperceptible to people, repairing minor breakdowns. Of the people, only a few know about their existence.
A refrigerator is brought to an ordinary Moscow apartment of the Smirnovs, with which a "guarantee" named Kholodilin also arrives. He immediately meets Ivan Ivanovich Bure, the "guarantee" of the cuckoo clock. The watch warranty has expired, but the factory where they were made is long gone, and Bure, as a true master, has been looking after them for almost sixty years. Also in the apartment are the warranty Vacuum cleaner from the Uralets vacuum cleaner and the News of the Day from the radio.
The next day, the inhabitants of the apartment - dad, mom and little girl Tanya - go to their dacha in Dorokhovo, where they are taking a rented refrigerator and a receiver. Vacuum cleaner and Bure with the cuckoo Mashka set off to keep company with Kholodilin and the News of the Day. However, at the dacha, they immediately encounter difficulties. Firstly, local mice declare war on them, because they consider themselves the owners of the country house. And soon they take Bure prisoner and put him in a cage. And secondly, at night, the girl Tanya, who has not completely fallen asleep, notices the warranty with flashlights. And although her mother convinces her that she dreamed it, Tanya decides at all costs to catch the little men and play with them.
Having captured the scout mice, the guarantors feed them with sausage, so that they do not want to leave captivity - in the army of the mouse king, the soldiers are kept from hand to mouth. When the rest of the mice find out about this, they start walking around with the slogans "We do not want to fight, but we want to surrender, because sausages are tastier than shells!" and "Down with gunpowder, long live the cottage cheese!" And although the king calls for war, there are more of those who prefer peace and sausage. The guarantors manage to free Bure and at night, after Tanya's birthday, leave home. When they reach the highway, they leave a special sign, and in one of the cars passing by, the warranty Ressorych makes the car stop. Bure with Masha and the little mouse Vasya who joined them return to the Smirnovs' apartment, and the rest of the guarantors are sent to their factories for new tasks.

Contemporary readers have a special attitude towards Soviet books. I see several reasons for this.

Firstly, this quality - Soviet children's literature was created by really professionals, real artists, writers and poets; each book was properly professionally edited, and it took a long time to prepare for publication.

Secondly, these books make us feel nostalgic; it engulfs us when we see an old book, well known to us from our childhood; perhaps there is some personal history connected with this book ...

A very interesting series "The best books of" Baby "- in it Soviet bestsellers, the best children's books of the USSR, which were published at that time in the publishing house" Malysh "in huge circulations, and therefore familiar to a large audience. Surely, in this series you will find many acquaintances These books are more impressive, thicker, in hard "crusts".

In this series, mainly works by the most famous authors (Marshak, Mikhalkov, Chukovsky, Gorky, Prokofiev, etc.), well-known children's classics, are published. But the Dolphin publishing house has relied on lesser-known books. In the series "Mishutkin's Books", there were reprints of authors whose names are not so widely known to the mass reader. Natalya Munts, Rachel Baumvol, Yakov Dlugolensky - these are also THE MOST Soviet books that our mothers and fathers were reading with - and we too. The series "Mishutkins' Books" is not very large, but I hope it will continue to grow.

From time to time republishes old Soviet books

Best Slim Books

One day a question arises before the parents, to which it is very difficult to give an unambiguous answer: "How to make the child fall in love with books?" Everyone, of course, has their own recipes. One of them is to remember what books parents themselves read with pleasure at a young age. Many of us have a plump stack of thin books, maybe slightly frayed in the corners, loosened on paper clips from frequent reading, but carefully preserved from childhood. The magical variety of fairy tales of different peoples illustrated by Vasnetsov and Konashevich. Stories about animals of Bianca and Prishvin. Funny stories invented by Nosov. Store shelves are full of a variety of modern editions: interactive or made of safe materials, with sound elements or games. The text in them is often abbreviated or paraphrased - it allows you to get involved, but not more, although playing with these books is fun and interesting. It's nice to have a good, "adult" edition of hardcover fairy tales at home: a collection of classic stories with loved ones or completely innovative illustrations. But thin books for kids have their own charm, and it is not only practical. It is convenient to take a thin book with you on the road or to the clinic, you can give it to a child in his hands - and it will not make him feel “heavy” or difficult. Each book is a separate, complete little story, many Soviet artists illustrated them entirely, decorated frames, vignettes, both sides of the cover. A high-quality reprint of classic children's "baby books" repeats illustrations and text arrangement - as if you are looking into the past. But if you take the book in hand, it is noticeable how much higher the print quality is today, the density of the paper, how much more durable this thin booklet is. One of the leading publishing houses that give a second life to well-known fairy tales and stories is the Melik-Pashaev publishing house. Thin and graceful, the books of the publishing house are distinguished by excellent printing - drawings by recognized domestic illustrators, made on coated paper, are filled with pure colors and well-defined lines. Each book contains a complete, without abbreviations and retelling elements, a classic text. The series "Pebbles" by I.D. Meshcheryakov includes texts that have long become classics of Russian and foreign children's literature. They are decorated with magnificent drawings by recognized illustrators: Evgeny Rachev, Svetozar Ostrova, Petr Bagin, Boris Dekhterev. Lightweight and compact books, printed on thick and lightweight offset paper, are convenient to take with you on the road and for a walk, to read them with your baby on a park bench, on a train or in a car. Publishing house "Nigma" pleases with the reprint of foreign fairy tales and stories with illustrations by Pyotr Repkin, and "Makhaon" has a series of "Mischievous books": under each cover there are no more than two or three stories with full-page illustrations. ”Also includes only the best, time-tested fairy tales and stories. Moose calves, pikes, lions seem to be real, and it is not at all necessary to "lock" them in heavy hard covers. Recently, the series was replenished with poems and stories about children, which many parents can remember from childhood. The series "Charushin animals" is dedicated to books about animals with surprisingly vivid illustrations of Charuschina. Each story takes a separate booklet, and you want to re-read and review it over and over again. Let the child choose the favorite one: about the inhabitants of the sands, hedgehogs, bears, hares ... From early childhood, these publications instill a love of books, develop taste and remain in memory for life, because they were created with love and care for little readers. When you combine good printing, crisp large print, wonderful pictures and a low price, you can easily put together a whole children's collection. And your children will also have a stack of their favorite thin books.

Best Slim Books

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One day a question arises before the parents, to which it is very difficult to give an unambiguous answer: "How to make the child fall in love with books?" Everyone, of course, has their own recipes. One of them is to remember what books parents themselves read with pleasure at a young age.

Many of us have a plump stack of thin books, perhaps slightly tattered in the corners, loosened on paper clips from frequent reading, but carefully preserved from childhood. The magical variety of fairy tales of different peoples illustrated by Vasnetsov and Konashevich. Stories about animals of Bianca and Prishvin. Funny stories invented by Nosov.

The store shelves are full of a variety of modern editions: interactive or made from safe materials, with sound elements or games. The text in them is often abbreviated or paraphrased - it allows you to get involved, but not more, although playing with these books is fun and interesting. It's nice to have at home a good, "adult" edition of fairy tales in hardcover: a collection of classic stories with loved ones or absolutely innovative illustrations.

But thin books for toddlers have their own charm, and it's not only practical. It is convenient to take a thin book with you on the road or to the clinic, you can give it to a child in his hands - and it will not make him feel “heavy” or difficult. Each book is a separate, complete little story, many Soviet artists illustrated them entirely, decorated frames, vignettes, both sides of the cover.

A high-quality reprint of the classic children's "baby books" repeats the illustrations and the layout of the text - as if you are looking into the past. But if you take the book in hand, it is noticeable how much higher the print quality is today, the density of the paper, how much more durable this thin booklet is.

One of the leading publishing houses giving a second life to well-known fairy tales and stories is the Melik-Pashayev publishing house. Thin and graceful, the books of the publishing house are distinguished by excellent printing - drawings by recognized domestic illustrators, made on coated paper, are filled with pure colors and well-defined lines. Each book contains a complete, without abbreviations and retelling elements, a classic text.

The series "Pebbles" by I D Meshcheryakov includes texts that have long become classics of Russian and foreign children's literature. They are decorated with magnificent drawings by recognized illustrators: Evgeny Rachev, with poems and stories about children that many parents can remember from childhood.

The series "Charushin Animals" is dedicated to books about animals with amazingly vivid illustrations. Each story takes a separate booklet, and you want to re-read and review it over and over again. Let the child choose the favorite one: about the inhabitants of the sands, hedgehogs, bears, hares ...

From early childhood, these publications instill a love of books, develop taste and remain in memory for life, because they were created with love and care for little readers. When you combine good printing, crisp large print, wonderful pictures and a low price, you can easily put together a whole children's collection. And your children will also have a stack of their favorite thin books.