70×84/16, hard cover, 77 pp., ill., 2006
ISBN 5-86793-480-2

This new book by children’s writer and translator Leonid Yakhnin is a fairy-tale remembrance of childhood. A snow horse, an embodiment of the author’s imagination, takes him into a past inhabited by peculiar yet loveable characters: Uncle Turtle Clog, Grandpa Croaker, Uncle Radio, Cucumber the Evil Thief, the Earless Tomcat and Mona Lisa the Cat. These characters are joined by other eccentric creatures from all over the world: Cross-Eyed Bob the cowboy, the chocolate beauty Ciocolatta and Grandpa the Whimperer. Not only do these creatures live their own lives, but they also accompany our little hero to the mysterious Island of Childhood. This is a tale bursting with adventure and mystery which will appeal to the child in all of us.

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