The path of growing up is not easy and not fast, there are many difficult moments and crises on it. Fortunately, on this path, children have an assistant - a "guide" carefully offered by a fairy tale through the faraway kingdom - a world of changes and transformations, from where you return as a completely different person. In this book, Lyudmila Petranovskaya will talk about how fairy tales, legends and traditions help us grow up, learn how the world works and understand ourselves. The book consists of five parts - Lyudmila's essay about how fairy tales familiar to all of us from childhood influence the process of forming basic life concepts: strength, talent, love, will and wisdom. In each part you will find fairy tales matched to the topic of the essay. Page after page, you will reacquaint yourself with fairy tale characters and their adventures, discovering unexpected riches hidden in The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf with illustrations by I. Bilibin, in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Puss in Boots ”with illustrations by G. Dore, in the medieval legend “Tristan and Isolde” with graphics by W. Crane, in the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm “Zamarashka” with illustrations by A. Rackham and 11 more favorite fairy tales read to holes.