The book by Vitaly Valentinovich Bianchi includes his best works about nature. The writer was an excellent expert on it. Over the years of his literary work, he wrote more than three hundred fairy tales, short stories, and stories dedicated to nature. V.V. Bianchi wrote a lot about the forest and its inhabitants. Most of all, he loved to talk about those animals and plants that everyone can meet in the forests and fields of his native Central Russian strip. It teaches the reader to observe, compare, think, be a researcher, and take care of nature. The book is published on the 125th anniversary of the birth of V. V. Bianchi. For middle school age.