Everyone has long known that children think differently. Their world is full of incredible adventures, and it is completely unclear how they grow into such boring adults. They are terribly impatient, and long stories with naked morals make them only yawn and count the birds outside the window. The famous French writer Bernard Friot was lucky: of course, he grew up like everyone else, but being boring is not his lot. In his miniature sketches, he describes a real child's life, where you can easily find a snake or a boa constrictor in a sugar bowl, and on the shelf with household appliances in a supermarket you will probably find a real prince-iron, you just have to kiss the unfortunate one. This is the first book of Impatient Stories, with four more on the way. All of them are illustrated by the ironic hand of Leonid Shmelkov. Surprisingly, these books can easily become a lifeline thrown from the world of adults to the world of children, because the child will certainly be delighted with them, and the adult will finally remember the simple truth that in the world of little girls and boys everything is completely different. to another.