Petka
19.99 €
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Petka
19.99 €
Heinrich Knizhnik has written a matchless humorous story about how a city, pampered boy Petka, who was under the supervised care of his mother and grandmother, finds himself in the village, where he has many funny, instructive, and sometimes dramatic adventures. Petka's father, who not without reason believed that his mother and grandmother are raising a "bologna" out of the boy, by all rights and wrongs managed to send his son to the village for the summer. And there Petka - fat, naive, homely, absolutely ignorant of life outside the walls of the city apartment and constantly getting into trouble because of this - thanks to new friends and unexpected circumstances himself becomes a reliable friend, gains resilience of character and gets a variety of life experience. The book is read in one breath from the first to the last word. Henry Knizhnik - a master of exciting plot - does not let the reader "relax" for a minute. The text is incredibly fascinating, funny and, at the same time, lyrical. The author loves his Petka very much, empathizes with him and is proud of his rural exploits. And this author's admiration very much adorns the book. I would especially like to note the beautiful literary language of Henry Knizhnik. Here is what he himself says about how this story appeared: "I have always been interested in children, and when my wife, son, our friends and their children and I went to the forest farms in the summer, the adults, going about their business, left all the children's team for me, and I fiddled with them, occupied them with games and fairy tales. And once, sitting in my laboratory waiting for the devices to be ready, I unexpectedly wrote on a sheet of paper prepared for a scientific article: "Petykina's surname was Tyotkin, and he thought that all his troubles came from that." I had no intention of becoming a children's writer, so after writing the story halfway through, I stopped for almost five years. But something inside made me finish it, and our relative gave it to the "House of Children's Books", where her relative worked. There she was very reluctantly taken: "These physicists are only capable of boring fairy tales. They'd better mind their own business," but they read it and gave it to Detgiz, where it was soon published. And then it went on by itself. Parallel to physics. Artist Gennady Yasinsky "caught" the author's wave and drew just such a Petka and other characters, as they appear to readers from the pages of the book. It is recommended for children of older preschool and primary school age. Thanks to the large print and energetic plot, the book is good for independent reading.
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