What to do if you just became a king yesterday, and already accidentally released a bloodthirsty red dragon, who is about to eat your entire kingdom? Or what to do if today you are a princess, and tomorrow you are a birthday present for a scary and very hungry purple dragon? The main thing is not to despair, wipe away your tears and... remember that you are in a fairy tale. However, you should not rely only on magic, because in Edith Nesbit's fairy tales you can't do without ingenuity and resourcefulness!
The English writer Edith Nesbit (1858-1924), along with Lewis Carroll and Clive S. Lewis, is considered one of the founders of modern children's fairy tale literature, and her witty, lively and imagination-stirring tales have long been recognized as classics. The magical world created by the writer is as real as it gets, but in this reality no one is surprised by miracles: here dragons can fall straight from the sky, and the North Pole can one day "move" to the neighborhood next door.
This book includes five fairy tales about dragons, retold from English by the famous poet and translator Leonid Yakhnin. And the illustrations for them were created by the St. Petersburg artist Elena Zhukovskaya. In her drawings, fire-breathing lizards come to life, festive fireworks scatter into hundreds of sparks, and real magic occurs!
Recommended reader age: 6+
Author: Leonid Yakhnin , Edith Nesbit
Artist: Elena Zhukovskaya
Year of issue: 2023
Publisher: Rech
Pages: 104
Dimensions: 215x290 mm
Cover type: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-5-9268-4087-9