Original title: "Sky Island" Literature used: 1) book "Sky Island", publishing house "Reilly and Britton", USA, Chicago, 1912 // 2) book "Sky Island", publishing house "Dover Publications", USA , New York, 2002, ISBN: 0-486-42360-3 // 3) book "Island in the Sky", publishing house "Ripol-classic", Russia, Moscow, 2001, ISBN: 5-7905-0663-1 Translator: Maria VorsanovaArtist: John Rea Neal ContentsChapter 1. Mysterious appearanceChapter 2. Magic umbrellaChapter 3. An amazing adventureChapter 4. Island in the skyChapter 5. Round CelestialChapter 6. Six snub-nosed princessesChapter 7. New friend Uh-OsparlChapter 8. Blue cityChapter 9. Trot's sufferingChapter 10. Royal TreasuryChapter 11. Button and the Blue WolfChapter 12. The path through the MistChapter 13. The pink countryChapter 14. Tourmaline - a beggar princessChapter 15. DawnClan and SunsetChapter 16. The Sorceress RosaliaChapter 17. The Appearance of PolyflowerChapter 18. Meira, Queen of the Pink CountryChapter 19. The Pink Country is at war with BlueChapter 20. Uh-Osparle is going through hard timesChapter 21. Captain Bill is capturedChapter 22. The Adventures of Trot- invisible Chapter 23. The Girl and the Round Man Chapter 24. How the Blue Country was conquered Chapter 25. The Ruler of the Sky Island Chapter 26. Trot celebrates the victory Chapter 27. The fate of the magic umbrella Chapter 28. How the elephant's head came to life Chapter 29. Trot brings order to the Pink Country Chapter 30. The way home Returning from a neighboring town, the girl Meira, nicknamed Trot, meets along the way the boy Button, who is traveling across the United States with the help of a family heirloom - an old magic umbrella. Having tested the magic umbrella in action and convinced of its power, Trot, her friend retired Captain Bill and Button decide to go on a picnic to a neighboring island. The island has a complex name, and for simplicity, Trot and Captain Bill call it Sky Island because it seems to float in the skies. Button asks the magic umbrella to take them to the Sky Island, meaning this island, and it takes them to the magical Sky Island, located high in the sky. On the Sky Island, friends meet the tyrant Krugolyak, six snub-nosed princesses and the Blue Wolf; enter the Royal Treasury; meet the beggar Queen Tourmaline, the sorceress Rosalia and other amazing characters. The travelers find themselves caught up in a war between the island's inhabitants and must free Captain Bill from enemy captivity. Fans of fairy tales of all ages will enjoy reading about how three friends solve all their problems, prepare a magic umbrella for flight and go back home. Source: ?tu003d4912422 Dear friends! I bring to your attention a collection of fairy tales by the wonderful American children's writer Lyman Frank Baum in Russian. All books are homemade and have never been published in this form. I wanted to convey to you the charm of old books, present them in an authentic, undistorted and unpainted form. It was precisely these fairy tales with stunning, magnificent drawings that American children read 100 years ago. For my works I used only original illustrations from Baum's first editions of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. All the drawings have been restored, the inscriptions have been Russified, because my books are intended for Russian-speaking readers. Some of them have special wide margins on which illustrations are placed, as was done in the original Baum books. I would like to note that in addition to the classic books about the Land of Oz, other works of the writer that are less known in our country are also distributed here, such as “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”, “Queen Zixie from Country X”, “Sea Fairies”, “The Island in heaven" and others. There are currently 16 books being given away, 10 of which are about Oz. Unfortunately, due to family circumstances, work on the project has been suspended. Sincerely, pavel_7_8