There are writers of great fame. Like a bell. Or like a copper basin. And there are writers of quiet fame. Quiet - long-lasting glory. Poet Tatyana Bek said about the writer Koval: “The word of Yuri Koval will always be as long as there is Cyrillic alphabet, speech in general and life on Earth.” Yuri Koval’s books are written for all reading ages, everything in them is light and magical - both objects and the voices of animals, and trees, and wild flowers, and the words spoken by animals and people, birds and rainwater. Ordinary life in his books is combined with a fairy tale. Perhaps this is what is called a reader’s happiness - to know that there are books in the world that you want to read always come back. The book was prepared for the 80th anniversary of the wonderful writer, which he, unfortunately, did not live to see.