Michael Ende is a children's writer with worldwide fame. His books are read in all major languages, including Japanese and Chinese, and the film “The Neverending Story” was made based on The Endless Book, which is familiar to our audience. The Endless Book was first published in 1979 and immediately became famous. Its characters, speaking many languages of the world, became friends of children from different countries. And now, finally, we can get acquainted with the amazing “Endless Book” - here is the first edition in Russian of a wonderful fairy tale about the adventures of the boy Bastian in the land of Fantasy. Almost all of M. Ende’s books have been awarded major literary prizes, including the most prestigious - Andersen's. Artist E. R. Sokolov.