Larisa Rumarchuk is a poet and prose writer, a journalist and songwriter, the head of a literary club and a member of the selection committee of the Writers' Union. The stories from this book describe a wartime childhood far from us: first in evacuation, in Bashkiria, then in the Moscow region. They talk about life, which is little known to today's schoolchildren, and are especially interesting for them. The free manner of narration, attention to detail, confidential intonation - everything makes this book not only a unique testimony of the time, but also an artistically perfect work.