White-sided Magpie

The best book for early reading is, without a doubt, a fairy tale, presented briefly and clearly, with bright and understandable pictures for the child.

The nursery rhyme about the white-sided magpie with drawings by the greatest master of children's illustration Yuri Vasnetsov is told and shown to the youngest readers. A businesslike magpie in a skirt with an apron, with a staff and a bundle walks through the forest, fusses around the house and invites guests: an owl, a sparrow, a squirrel, a hare, a duck and mice. Who won't she give porridge to?

The artist drew expressive and memorable characters and created an attractive fairy-tale world around them, which looks real thanks to additional details. This includes a hut, windows with shutters, a stove, the main character's clothes, supplies of mushrooms and rowan berries, buckets with yokes, an axe with a log, a cast-iron pot with porridge, and fir trees and bushes around the hut. Such drawings captivate the child, focus his attention, help him learn new words and images, and evoke an emotional response.

The book is recommended for very young children for repeated viewing of beautiful pictorial illustrations, as well as for playing with the baby's fingers and palms with the help of adults.

Recommended reader age: 1+

Processing: Bulatov Mikhail
Artist: Vasnetsov Yuri
Publisher: Melik-Pashayev
Pages: 12
Cover type: Softcover
Dimensions: 270 × 215 × 3 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00041-581-8