In the Forest

Pyotr Ivanovich Bagin is a multifaceted person, a talented artist, equally mastering both pencil and word, who wrote and illustrated a beautiful, interesting, and useful picture book—a true encyclopedia of the animals of the Central Russian forest.

The spread illustrations dedicated to each month of the year are not only expressive and picturesque, but they are also absolutely accurate from a zoological point of view. After winter comes spring, followed by summer and autumn… Around the little reader roam bears, deer, moose, squirrels, foxes, hares, and lynxes. Birds build nests, and animals dig burrows. Chicks hatch from eggs, tadpoles from eggs, and baby animals suckle their mother's milk.

This is a real walk in the forest—along paths and glades, edges and hills—during which the child observes, listens, and notices the slightest movement… And they will also learn that the forest inhabitants lead complex lives, enter into intricate relationships with each other, and act according to their natural behaviors.

The book is recommended for reading by adults to children, as well as for jointly examining the unique illustrations, the appearance of which was preceded by meticulous research work by the author.