Kate Greenway was very fond of flowers, and they always occupied a special place in her paintings. The artist very accurately and realistically, and at the same time figuratively, depicted a variety of flowers, and also often used them as a decorative motif. Several Greenaway books have been dedicated to flowers, including "Marigold Garden", the second collection of her own poems. The decorativeness of beautiful flowering plants remains in the books of Greenway in a special artistic way....
An excellent representative of the post-war genre, when the public is tired of cruelty and wants a little tenderness and lightness. The book tells the continuation of the story of two girls - the sisters Mavis and Merle, and their family, but the story is independent and can be read separately....
“The Wind in the Willows” is a children's story that children and adults read with equal pleasure. Written and published at the beginning of the last century in England, it has spread around the world, translated into many languages. Readers fell in love with her heroes - the rational and kind Mole, the hospitable, reasonable Water Rat, the conceited Toad, the severe, reliable friendship Badger and other inhabitants of the River Bank and the inhospitable Wild Thicket. Their adventures, funny, and sometimes dangerous, end well only because they are all ready to come to each other's rescue....
Once in the Land of Oz, where there are neither rich nor poor, no enmity or envy, and life there is just a celebration of sociability and friendliness, a misfortune happened - the Skizers declared war on the Flat-headed! Obedient to the call of duty, armed with a magic wand, the Great Sorceress Ozma, the ruler of the Land of Oz, hurries to them. Along the way, she is accompanied by a friend, Princess Dorothy, a girl from Kansas. Their life is in mortal danger, but in the Magic Land of Good Evil is always punishable. And friendly help comes on time. “Glinda from the Land of Oz” is the last...
"Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet" is a fairy tale by an Italian writer born in Florence. Pinocchio in translation from the Tuscan dialect means "pine nut". The wooden little man is known for his nose, which is enlarged every time Pinocchio tries to lie. “The Adventures of Pinocchio. The Story of a Wooden Doll ”introduces you to Fox and the Cat, the dad of the wooden boy - Jeppetto, a talking cricket, a beautiful girl with azure hair and many other characters of this unique fairy tale, full of adventure and magic....
Oliver Goldsmith is an English prose writer, poet and playwright of Irish descent, a prominent representative of sentimentalism. "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" is a comic poem about how a man was bitten by a mad dog and everyone predicted an imminent death, but a miracle happened....
In The Tale of Mr. Tod, first published in 1912, the children of Benjamin and Flopsy are abducted by the infamous badger Tommy Brock. Peter helps Benjamin track down Brock, who is hiding in the fox’s house, Mr. Tod. Mr. Tod comes home and sees that Brock is sleeping in his bed, and they are fighting, and Peter and Benjamin are saving the children....
This book contains many wonderful ideas on how to entertain a child, even if he has grown up long ago. This is a collection of games that can be taken off the shelf when the electricity is turned off and assemble the whole family in one game. And the older generation will be able to remember youth....
Beatrice Potter (1866-1943) is still one of the most popular children's writers in the world. She wrote and illustrated 28 books, which were translated into 35 languages and sold over 100 million copies. Peter Rabbit was named after the little rabbit Beatrice Potter had in childhood. The first tale of Peter the Bunny was created in 1893 in a letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of the former governess Potter, Annie Moore....
The English writer Richmal Crompton is best known for his funny tales of William Brown. Children and adults fell in love with this inexhaustible hero. Simply, William is the first book of children's stories about a young school boy, William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton and published in 1922. The book was the first in a series of books by William Brown, which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations....
The collection "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde, a famous English writer of the 19th century, is a classic example of English prose. The fabulous motives and the “decorative” style of narration conceal the most important moral problems. The fairy tales reflected the aesthetic views of Oscar Wilde on art, the task of which the writer saw the creation of beauty, inaccessible to real life....
Peter, the mischievous little rabbit, climbed into Mr. McGregor's garden to enjoy salad, radish, parsley. But just how can Peter get out? Where is the gate - he forgot, and the angry owner began to chase after Peter around the garden!...
Every toy dreams of becoming real. But this does not happen by magic. If you want to become real, you need to be truly loved. This is where the magic begins ......
The book includes the famous story by Arthur Conan Doyle “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1902), the plot of which is based on a randomly heard author. The investigation of the strange origin is a consequence of the attack on monstrous dogs, which predetermine the persecution of family Baskervilles. The mystery of the family portrait, jealousy, the struggle for the inheritance and explicit recognition in the finale of the narrative create a unique flavor of one of the best works of the detective genre. You can read the book The Hound of the Baskervilles for free. To read the book of the...
