"The combination of magic and fantasy with the ordinary, the everyday and the utterly believable established E. Nesbit's reputation as an all-time leading children's writer." This is what it says in the English encyclopedic reference book about the contemporary of R. Kipling and G. Wells. Only one book by Nesbit was published in Russia, and that was eighty years ago. For the young heroes of the story and their animal patron, summer days at the dacha are full of funny and dangerous adventures. And God forbid what the children from “Tales of Dragons” had to endure. The works of Edith Nesbit are classics of English children's literature.