Once Upon a Time. Reading and Developing with a Psychologist

The path to growing up is not easy or fast, there are many difficult moments and crises along the way. Fortunately, children have an assistant on this path - a "guide" to the faraway kingdom, a world of changes and transformations, from where you return as a completely different person, thoughtfully offered by a fairy tale. In this book, Lyudmila Petranovskaya will tell you how fairy tales, legends and traditions help us grow up, learn how the world works and understand ourselves. The book consists of five parts - Lyudmila's essays on how exactly fairy tales familiar to all of us from childhood influence the process of forming basic life concepts: strength, talent, love, will and wisdom. After each essay, you will find fairy tales selected for the essay topic. Page after page, you will become reacquainted with fairy-tale characters and their adventures, discovering unexpected riches hidden in "The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf" with illustrations by I. Bilibin, in Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Puss in Boots" with illustrations by G. Doré, in the medieval tale "Tristan and Isolde" with graphics by W. Crane, in the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Zamarashka" with illustrations by A. Rackham, and 11 more beloved fairy tales that have been read to pieces.

Author: Lyudmila Vladimirovna Petranovskaya
Publisher: AST
Pages: 256
Cover type: hardcover
Dimensions: 201 x 265 x 22 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-171692-9