“Stepan Petrovich is our teacher. His real name is Pugovitsyn. We nicknamed him Confusion because he is a very absent-minded person...”

Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) was a renowned American writer, folklorist, and journalist. For more than two decades, Harris published collections of black...

The book includes fairy tales about animals, magic and everyday tales. Compiler, author of the introductory article A. V. Vashchenko. Notes by A. V. Vashchen...

“The jungle is a good school for both animals and boys. My father was firmly convinced of this. “Reading and writing,” he said, “are the last rung of the lad...

“In our wanderings through the jungle we often encountered herds of elephants. I always looked with longing at the crowds of giants, remembering my Kari. Thr...

“Spring has come, and with it came hopes: finally, I thought, we will go in search of my old friend. But for some reason my father was in no hurry with this ...

“By the age of five, Kari was already slightly shorter than our house. We did not teach him to hunt because we ourselves did not hunt wild animals. My father...

“This summer a tiger visited our village. One night, near the outskirts, he killed two buffaloes. Then he began to visit us often, every now and then he slau...

“I couldn't wait for Kari and me to be taken to the sawmill; but only adult, well-trained elephants were accepted there, and my friend and I still had to wai...

“Having swallowed a fair amount of food, the Dutch felt wonderfully cheerful and inspired and prepared for battle. “Waiting,” says the chronicler, “waiting s...

““Your mom probably has guests,” said Uncle Remus when Joel ran up to him with a huge piece of layer cake. “And if it’s not guests, it’s certainly true that ...

The legends of Robin Hood are studied in literature lessons in the 6th grade.