Together with the heroes of Chukovsky’s books, … no, not only mothers and fathers, but great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers of those kids who today are still read “Moydodyr” and “Aibolit” grew up: “Crocodile”, his first fairy tale, was published in 1917.
Together with the heroes of Chukovsky’s books, … no, not only mothers and fathers, but great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers of those kids who today are still read “Moydodyr” and “Aibolit” grew up: “Crocodile”, his first fairy tale, was published in 1917. If we subtract from our experience Mukha-Tsokotukha, Barmaley and all the others whom he invented, will there be so many recognizable, familiar to everyone, regardless of education and social stratum, who will accept childhood in the USSR and in today’s Russia? Meanwhile, Chukovsky wrote not only children’s books: a literary critic, critic, translator, for seven decades he was one of the most prominent characters in the literary life of Russia. Writer and journalist Irina Lukyanova studied many sources and created a new biography of this amazing person, unsurpassed in its completeness.
Young Guard, 989 p.