A collection of stories and poems for children by great Soviet writers. A biographical note of each writer is given.

Drawings by Georgy Yudin
Compilation and notes on authors by Igor Bronetsky
Translated from the Russian

All credits to Guptaji

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CONTENTS

Stories

Zoya Voskresenskaya
SURPRISE
Translated by Olga Shartse
7

Arkady Gaidar
THE HOT STONE
Translated by Jan Butler
14

Konstantin Paustovsky
FRESH BREAD
Translated by Fainna Glagoleva
21

Mikhail Prishvin
THE MANY FLOORS OF THE FOREST
32
YARIK
Translated by Fainna Solasko
35

Vitaly Bianki
THE FIRST HUNT
Translated by Ronald Vroon
40
FOREST HOMES
Translated by Fainna Glagoleva
44

Ivan Sokolov-Mikitov
THE CRANE AVIATOR
50
A CAMP IN THE STEPPE
Translated by Jan Butler
55

Boris Zhitkov
THE POST
57
THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE
Translated by Jan Butler
59

Yevgeny Shvarts
A TALE OF WASTED TIME
Translated by Fainna Solasko
64

Nikolai Nosov
VISITING GRANDPA
Translated by Fainna Solasko
74

Eduard Uspensky
BOBBY THE GUN DOG
80
GENA THE CROCODILE AND HIS FRIENDS (AN EXCERPT)
Translated by Jan Butler
83

Boris Zakhoder
LITTLE GREY STAR
Translated by Jan Butler
88

Poems

Vladimir Mayakovsky
WHAT SHALL I BE?
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
99

Kornei Chukovsky
WASH EM CLEAN
Translated by Eugene Felgenhauer
108
THE MUDDLE
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
115

Samuel Marshak
A HAPPY DAY
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
119
IN THE VAN
Translated by Margaret Wettlin
124

Sergei Mikhalkov
WHAT HAVE YOU?
127
MY PUPPY
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
131
DOUBTING FOMA
Translated by Eugene Felgenhauer
133

Agnia Barto
ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL
136
SERYOZHA’S HOMEWORK
Translated by Dorian Rottenberg
138
LEFT BEHIND
Translated by Avril Pyman
140
MY FIRST VISIT TO THE BALLET
Translated by Eugene Felgenhauer
141