“Miracles do not happen, but fabulous circumstances do happen” - this is exactly what the gray-haired goblin taught young brownies at school. The brownie's first letter to his mother begins with this memory. Each new letter reveals the story of the formation of a young fairy-tale creature in a difficult world, where people and fairy-tale creatures well known to all Russian readers calmly coexist. The modern human world has inevitably had its influence on the fairy-tale side of existence, which the brownie Parsley must understand and find his place.