Fedotova, Maria.F34 Game of pebbles: [for younger. school age: 6+] / Maria Fedotova; lane from Yakut by Ariadna Borisova; ill. Irina Galkina. - M.: KompasGid, 2019. - 112 p.: ill. ISBN 978-5-00083-540-1 One day the girl Nulgynet saw a very small man and was surprised: why is he so short? “He’s just a child, just like you!” - Mom laughed. How does a baby know that there are other children in the world? She is the only one in the entire district - the nearest village is a day's journey on a sleigh! The name Nulgynet means “born during the nomadic period,” and she lives in a brigade of reindeer herders in the Yakut tundra. A chocolate candy or a rubber ball is a curiosity from the “big world” for her, but she is not afraid of meeting wolves and once helped cure a wounded eagle. Nulgynet learned to ride a deer before she could write and read, and her favorite toys, colorful stones, can turn into wild animals, houses, or treasures. The girl is like the heroine of the animated series “Mountain of Gems”: she seems just as unreal herself, just as magical is her life. But believe it or not, the stories collected under this cover are not fairy tales at all, but the memories of a matured Nulgynet! Her name is Maria Prokopyevna Fedotova, she is a teacher with extensive experience and a popular children's writer in the Far East, whose books are published in three languages: Yakut, Even and Russian. The book “The Game of Pebbles” was originally published in the Yakut language, it was translated into Russian by Ariadna Borisova . For this story, the author and translator were awarded the Vladislav Krapivin Prize in the “Small Motherland - Greater Russia” category. Irina Galkina's illustrations perfectly convey the unique flavor of the book. For readers of primary school age, “The Game of Pebbles” will certainly be a discovery: how diverse our world turns out to be!