Vitya Maleev is a fourth grade student. He lives with his parents and sister. He also has a best friend, the slightly eccentric Kostya Shishkin. Over the period of one school year, the boys will experience both funny and difficult situations, learn to be friends and help each other. Contents Viktor Chizhikov. The artist tells... (article, photo), pp. 2-3 Nikolai Nosov. Vitya Maleev at school and at home (story, illustrations by V. Chizhikov), pp. 5-158 Note: For the first time - the magazine “New World” (1951, No. 6). The story was published as a separate book in a new edition in 1952 - the story in a separate edition is so different from the magazine publication that we can talk about a new version of it. Source: php?tu003d4124247