130×205 (84×108/32), hard cover, 160 pp., ill., 2003
ISBN 5-86793-254-0

The Singing Tree is the latest book by the well-known writer and translator Leonid Yakhnin – author of many children’s poems, stories and plays. This delight of a book is packed with the exciting adventures of a gang of unusual fairytale characters in the land of Reflection. Young readers will meet the friendly Hippopotamus, who always appears when you are in trouble; the little man with Legs of Straw, and the narrator himself who has taken on a great number of forms in his life – he was once even a telegraph pole!
In their search for the mysterious Singing Tree, the characters – and readers! – will make new friends and learn many new and unexpected things. For children aged 4-13.

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