Fairy Tales About Animals

These stories could very well have happened in reality. The little bear Umka could have once slipped away from his mother bear and gone to people to find among them a friend — a little boy; the duck Gray Shchayka could have fallen into the paws of a fox and, with a broken wing, remained alone to winter by the river, while the fox could have hunted her again, and the hunter could have found the duck and taken her to his granddaughters; two bear brothers could have gone out — with their mother's permission, of course — to wander the world and immediately found a piece of cheese by the forest path; one boastful frog could have charmed the migratory ducks so much that they not only didn’t eat her but also took her with them on their journey south… But in nature, bears, ducks, foxes, and frogs do not talk. And hares cannot laugh. And trees do not speak, and if they do, a person does not hear them and does not understand them. Therefore, these stories are called fairy tales. They have made up a real collection.
The collection is supplemented with fables and poems by Russian poets about animals.
The works are accompanied by illustrations by Georgy Nikolsky, Evgeny Rachev, Victoria Kirdiy.