Irina and Leonid Tyukhtyaev «Zoki and bada»

“Zoks are such funny creatures. They eat honey and have a lot of hooligans. Zoks settled at the bada, such a black furry beast with horns, began to steal his honey and arrange all sorts of outrages. Bada tries to educate them, but nothing works — on the contrary, they educate him! At first, my mother and I just read, laughed, and then I realized: I myself am a zoo! I also like sweets and a lot of hooligans. Of course, I don’t torment mom and dad as much as zoks torment bada. But I noticed that bada himself behaves incorrectly with them. Either he gets angry and butts, then he tries to re-educate them with affection, but the zoki is still more cunning. But I feel sorry for the bad. When he was completely exhausted with these naughty zoks, he flew away from them to the moon. That’s when they realized what they had done! To return bada, they promised that they would no longer be hooligans. Just in case, I also decided to be less mischievous — what if mom and dad run away from me too? So far, however, I have not been able to … «

Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 144 p.