How dad was small the main characters. How dad was little - Alexander Borisovich Raskin

Alexander Borisovich Raskin

How dad was little

DEAR GUYS!

I want to tell you how this book was born. Here is her story. I have a daughter Sasha. Now she's already big girl. She herself now often says: “When I was little ...” So, when Sasha was very young, she was sick a lot. Then she had the flu, then a sore throat. And then my ears hurt. If you have ever had otitis media, then you do not need to explain how it hurts. And if it was not, then there is no need to explain either - you will never understand this.

Once Sasha's ear hurt so much that she cried for a whole day and almost could not sleep. I felt so sorry for her that I almost cried myself. And I read different books to her or told her funny stories. So I told her about how I was little and threw my new ball under the car. Sasha really liked this story. She liked that dad was also small, he was also naughty and did not obey, and he was also punished. She remembered it. And now, as soon as she started to shoot in her ear, she immediately shouted: “Dad, dad, my ear hurts! Hurry, tell me how you were little!” And I told her everything that you are about to read. I chose funny stories: after all, it was necessary to cheer up a sick girl. And I also tried to make my daughter understand how bad it is to be greedy, braggart, arrogant. But this does not mean that I myself have been like this all my life. I just tried to remember only such cases. And when I didn’t have enough of them, I took them from other dads I knew. After all, each of them, too, was once small. So all these stories are not invented by me, but were actually.

Now Sasha has grown up. She is less ill and reads large, thick books herself.

But I decided that maybe other guys are also interested in learning about how one dad was little.

That's all guys, what I wanted to tell you. No, I'll tell you one more thing in confidence. This book has a sequel. It will be different for each of you. After all, every dad can tell how he was little. And mom too. I would like to listen to them myself.

Well, now everything. Goodbye, guys! I wish you happiness and health.

respect you

A. Raskin

HOW DAD THROWED THE BALL UNDER THE CAR

When dad was still small and lived in small town Pavlovo-Posada, they gave him big ball amazing beauty. This ball was like the sun. No, it was even better than the sun. First, you could look at him without squinting. And it was exactly four times more beautiful than the sun, because it had four colors. And the sun is only one color, and even that is difficult to see. One side of the ball was pink, like marshmallow, the other brown, like the most delicious chocolate. The top was blue like the sky, and the bottom was green like grass. Such a ball has never been seen in the small town of Pavlovo-Posad. They specially went to Moscow for him. But I think that in Moscow there were few such balls. Not only children came to see him, but also adults.

“This is the ball!” Everyone said.

And it was a really great ball. And dad was very proud. He acted as if he himself invented this ball, made it and painted it in four colors. When dad proudly went out into the street to play with his beautiful ball, the boys came running from all sides.

- Oh, what a ball! they said. - Let's play!

But dad grabbed his ball and said:

- I'm not giving it! This is my ball! Nobody has that! It was brought from Moscow! Stand back! Don't touch my ball!

And then the boys said:

- Oh, you greedy!

But dad still didn't give them his wonderful ball. He played with him alone. It's very boring to play alone. And the greedy dad deliberately played around the boys so that they would envy him.

And then the boys said:

- He is greedy. Let's not hang out with him!

And they didn't see him for two days. And on the third day they said:

- The ball is nothing to you. It's right. It's big and nicely painted. But if you throw it under a car, it will burst like the worst black ball. So there is nothing to turn up your nose so much.

My ball will never burst! - proudly said dad, who by that time was so arrogant, as if he himself had been painted in four colors.

- How it will burst! the boys laughed.

- No, it won't burst!

“Here comes the car,” said the boys. - Well, what are you? Drop it! Or scared?

“After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this.”

This book can be read in 30 minutes, but this fact did not prevent the book from becoming a world classic. The author of the story is the French writer, poet and professional pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This allegorical tale is the most famous work author. It was first published in 1943 (April 6) in New York. It is interesting that the drawings in the book were made by the author himself and became no less famous than the book itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupery(French Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exup?ry; June 29, 1900, Lyon, France - July 31, 1944) - a famous French writer, poet and professional pilot.

To a summary of the story

At the age of six, the boy read about how a boa constrictor swallows its prey, and drew a snake that swallowed an elephant. It was a drawing of a boa constrictor on the outside, but the adults claimed it was a hat. Adults always need to explain everything, so the boy made another drawing - a boa constrictor from the inside. Then the adults advised the boy to give up this nonsense - according to them, he should have done more geography, history, arithmetic and spelling. So the boy abandoned a brilliant career as an artist. He had to choose another profession: he grew up and became a pilot, but still showed his first drawing to those adults who seemed to him more reasonable and understanding than the rest, and everyone answered that it was a hat. It was impossible to talk heart to heart with them - about boas, jungles and stars. And the pilot lived alone until he met the Little Prince.

This happened in the Sahara. Something broke in the plane's engine: the pilot had to fix it or die, because there was only water left for a week. At dawn, the pilot was awakened by a thin voice - a tiny baby with golden hair, unknown how he got into the desert, asked him to draw a lamb for him. The astonished pilot did not dare to refuse, especially since his new friend turned out to be the only one who managed to make out in the first drawing a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant. Gradually it turned out that the Little Prince came from a planet called "asteroid B-612" - of course, the number is only needed for boring adults who love numbers.

The whole planet was the size of a house, and the Little Prince had to take care of her: every day to clean three volcanoes - two active and one extinct, and also weed out the sprouts of baobabs. The pilot did not immediately understand the danger baobabs pose, but then he guessed and, in order to warn all the children, he drew a planet where a lazy person lived, who did not weed out three bushes in time. But the Little Prince always put his planet in order. But his life was sad and lonely, so he loved to watch the sunset - especially when he was sad. He did this several times a day, simply by moving his chair to follow the sun. Everything changed when a wonderful flower appeared on his planet: it was a beauty with thorns - proud, touchy and ingenuous. The little prince fell in love with her, but she seemed to him capricious, cruel and arrogant - he was then too young and did not understand how this flower lit up his life. And so the Little Prince cleaned his volcanoes for the last time, pulled out the sprouts of baobabs, and then said goodbye to his flower, which only at the moment of farewell admitted that he loved him.

He went on a journey and visited six neighboring asteroids. The king lived on the first: he wanted to have subjects so much that he offered the Little Prince to become a minister, and the kid thought that adults were a very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious on third- drunkard on the fourth- a business man fifth- lamplighter. All adults seemed extremely strange to the Little Prince, and only he liked the Lamplighter: this man remained faithful to the agreement to light the lamps in the evenings and extinguish the lanterns in the mornings, although his planet was so reduced that day and night changed every minute. Don't be so small here. The little prince would have stayed with the Lamplighter, because he really wanted to make friends with someone - besides, on this planet you could admire the sunset one thousand four hundred and forty times a day!

A geographer lived on the sixth planet. And since he was a geographer, he was supposed to ask travelers about the countries where they came from in order to write down their stories in books. The little prince wanted to tell about his flower, but the geographer explained that only mountains and oceans are written in books, because they are eternal and unchanging, and flowers do not live long. Only then did the Little Prince realize that his beauty would soon disappear, and he left her alone, without protection and help! But the insult has not yet passed, and the Little Prince went on, but he thought only of his abandoned flower.

Earth was with food- a very difficult planet! Suffice it to say that there are one hundred and eleven kings, seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people - a total of about two billion adults. But the Little Prince made friends only with the snake, the Fox and the pilot. The snake promised to help him when he bitterly regrets his planet. And Fox taught him to be friends. Everyone can tame someone and become his friend, but you always need to be responsible for those whom you have tamed. And the Fox also said that only the heart is vigilant - you cannot see the most important thing with your eyes. Then the Little Prince decided to return to his rose, because he was responsible for it. He went to the desert - to the very place where he fell. So they met the pilot. The pilot drew him a lamb in a box and even a muzzle for a lamb, although he used to think that he could only draw boas - inside and out. The little prince was happy, but the pilot felt sad - he realized that he was also tamed. Then the Little Prince found a yellow snake, whose bite kills in half a minute: she helped him, as promised. The snake can return everyone to where he came from - she returns people to the earth, and she returned the Little Prince to the stars. The kid told the pilot that it would only look like death, so there is no need to be sad - let the pilot remember him, looking at the night sky. And when the Little Prince laughs, it will seem to the pilot that all the stars are laughing like five hundred million bells.

The pilot fixed his plane and his comrades rejoiced at his return. Since then six years have passed: little by little he was comforted and fell in love with looking at the stars. But he is always excited: he forgot to draw a muzzle strap, and the lamb could eat the rose. Then it seems to him that all the bells are crying. After all, if the rose is no longer in the world, everything will be different, but no adult will ever understand how important this is.

There are works that can be read and re-read many times. Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince is one of those books. Since its first edition in 1943, it has been among the most widely read books in the world. Its author, a French pilot and writer, is an adult who has remained a child in his soul. The book "The Little Prince" tells about the unusual meeting of the pilot (due to a malfunction in the engine, the pilot had to land the plane in the desert) with the Little Prince, a guest from another planet. This book is included in the 6th grade curriculum.

"The Little Prince" is a story in form and a fairy tale in plot, a story in an understandable language about serious and eternal issues: love, friendship, loyalty and responsibility for loved ones. In order to make sense and main idea we suggest reading the story summary"The Little Prince" chapter by chapter online.

main characters

The narrator- a pilot who made an emergency landing in the Sahara, an adult who remained a child in his soul.

Little Prince- a boy who lives on a small planet and once went on a journey. He meets different adults who seem so strange - he himself sees the world in a completely different way.

Other characters

the Rose- the favorite flower of the Little Prince, a capricious and proud creature.

King- a ruler for whom the main thing in life is power. He considers all people to be his subjects.

ambitious- an inhabitant of one of the planets, who considers himself the best, smartest and richest, and all people - his admirers.

Drunkard- an adult who drinks, trying to forget that he is ashamed of what he drinks.

business man- a person who constantly counts the stars. He thinks that it is enough to be the first to call himself the owner of the stars to really be one.

Lamplighter- a resident of the smallest planet visited by the Little Prince, every second lights and extinguishes his lantern.

Geographer- a scientist who knows nothing about his beautiful planet, because he never leaves the office. Writes stories of travelers.

Snake- first creature seen by the Little Prince on Earth. It seems to him that the snake speaks in riddles. Offers to help the boy when he misses his home.

fox- a friend who revealed to the Little Prince many secrets of life. The fox teaches him friendship and love.

Chapter 1

As a child, the narrator drew his first picture: a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant. Adults who saw the drawing decided that it depicted a hat, and advised the boy to take up geography and other sciences instead of drawing. Because of this, the child lost faith in himself.

He chose the profession of a pilot, and flew around almost the whole world. He dated different adults. As soon as it seemed that a person spoke “the same language” with him, he showed him his children's drawing - the same one with a boa constrictor and an elephant - but everyone, without exception, saw only a hat in the drawing. And then the narrator had no choice but to talk to them about politics, ties and other things that they lived by. There was no one to talk to heart to heart.

Chapter 2

So the narrator lived alone, until one day a breakdown in the engine forced him to land the plane in the desert. At dawn, the sleeping pilot was awakened from nowhere by a little man who came from nowhere. He asked me to draw him a lamb. The hero drew the only picture he could. What was his astonishment when the boy exclaimed that he did not need an elephant in a boa constrictor!

Trying over and over again to draw such a lamb that the kid was waiting for, the pilot lost his patience and drew a box. The kid was very pleased - because he was able to see his lamb there.

Such was the acquaintance of the narrator with the Little Prince.

Chapters 3-4

The kid asked a lot of questions, but when the pilot asked about himself, he pretended not to hear. From the scraps of information received, it became clear that the child was from another planet, and this planet is very small. After thinking, the pilot decided that his home was the asteroid B612, seen through a telescope only once - it was so small.

Chapter 5

Little by little the pilot learned something about the life of the Little Prince. So, once it became known that there are troubles in the baby’s house too. Among plants, baobabs are often found. If you do not distinguish their sprouts from others in time and do not weed them out, they will quickly destroy the planet, tearing it apart with their roots.

To prevent this from happening, the Little Prince had a firm rule: “I got up in the morning, washed myself, put myself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.”

Chapter 6

Gradually it became clear that the baby was often sad on his planet. If “it becomes very sad, it’s good to see how the sun sets,” said the Little Prince. There was a day when the boy looked at the sky more than forty times...

Chapter 7

On the fifth day of their acquaintance, the pilot learned the secret of the Little Prince. On his planet lived an extraordinary flower that no one else in the world had. He was afraid that someday, the lamb that destroys the sprouts of baobabs will eat his favorite plant.

Chapter 8

Soon the narrator learned more about the flower. The Little Prince once had a tiny sprout, not like other flowers. Over time, a bud grew on it, which did not open for a long time. When all the petals opened, the baby saw with admiration a real beauty. She turned out to be a difficult character: the guest was a subtle and proud nature. The boy, who took to heart everything that the beauty said, felt unhappy and decided to run away, setting off on a journey.

Telling the story about the flower, the Kid already understood that “it was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds”, - after all, the beauty gave the planet a scent, but he did not know how to rejoice at this and “did not know how to love”.

Chapter 9

Before the journey, the boy carefully cleaned his planet. When he said goodbye to a beautiful guest, she suddenly asked for forgiveness, wished him happiness and admitted that she loved the Little Prince.

Chapters 10-11

Very close to the baby's planet were several asteroids, he decided to go there and learn something.

The king lived on the first planet. The monarch gave only feasible orders. For this reason, one had to wait for the exact time to see the sunset. The little prince became bored - he needed to see the sunset when he wanted, at the call of his heart.

On the second planet lived an ambitious man who thought that everyone admired him. The desire of an ambitious man to be smarter, more beautiful and richer than everyone else seemed strange to the boy.

Chapters 12-13

The third planet belonged to the drunkard. The little prince was at a loss when he heard that he was drinking in order to forget how ashamed he was because he was drinking.

The owner of the fourth planet was a business man. He was always busy: counting the stars in the certainty that he owns them. From him, according to the hero, there was no use.

Chapters 14-15

On the smallest planet there lived a lamplighter who lit and extinguished the lantern every moment. His occupation was useful, in the opinion of the kid, because the lamplighter thought not only about himself.

The hero also visited the geographer's planet. The scientist wrote down the stories of travelers, but he himself never saw the seas, deserts and cities.

Chapters 16-17

The seventh planet on which the Little Prince ended up was Earth, and it was huge.

At first, the baby did not see anyone on the planet, except for the snake. From her, he learned that not only in the desert, but also among people, it is also lonely. The snake promised to help him on the day when the boy would be sad about his home.

Chapter 18

Wandering in the desert, the hero came across a small unattractive flower. The flower did not know where to look for people - in his whole life he saw only a few of them and thought that they were carried by the wind, because people did not have roots.

Chapter 19

Climbing a mountain that got in the way, the Little Prince hoped to see the whole Earth and all people. But instead he saw only rocks and heard an echo. "Strange planet!" - the kid decided, and he became sad.

Chapter 20

Once a little hero saw a garden with many roses. They looked like his beauty, and the kid stopped, amazed. It turned out that his flower is not the only one in the world and not at all special. It hurt to think about it, he sat down in the grass and wept.

Chapter 21

At that moment, Fox appeared. The little prince was going to make friends, but it turned out that the animal must first be tamed. Then “we will need each other ... My life will light up like a sun,” said the Fox.

The fox taught the baby that “you can only learn those things that you tame”, and “to tame, you need to be patient”. He revealed to the boy an important secret: “Only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the main thing with your eyes ”and asked to remember the law:“ you are forever responsible for everyone you tamed. The little prince understood: the beautiful rose is the most precious thing, he gave her all his time and energy, and he is responsible for the rose - after all, he tamed it.

Chapter 22

Moving on, the Little Prince met a switchman who was sorting passengers. The kid asked him where and why people go, what are they looking for? Nobody knew the answer, and the hero decided that "only children know what they are looking for."

Chapter 23

Then the boy saw a merchant who was selling improved pills. Thanks to this, you could save almost an hour a week, take one pill - and you don’t have to drink for a week. If the kid had so many free minutes, he would just go to a living spring ...

Chapter 24

The pilot drank the last remaining water. Together, a boy and an adult set off on a journey in search of a well. When the baby was tired, he was consoled by the thought that somewhere there is his flower, and the desert is beautiful because springs are hidden in it. After the kid’s words about the desert, the narrator realized what kind of mysterious light he saw above the sands: “Be it a house, stars or a desert, the most beautiful thing about them is what you cannot see with your eyes.”

At dawn, the pilot with the boy in his arms reached the well.

Chapter 25

The pilot gave the baby a drink. Water was "like a gift to the heart"; it "was born from a long journey under the stars, from the creaking of the gate, from the efforts of the hands."

Now the friends spoke the same language and both knew that very little was needed to be happy.

The main character realized that the baby wants to return home.

Chapter 26

Having fixed the motor, the pilot returned to the well the next evening and saw that the Little Prince was talking to a snake. The pilot was very scared for the baby. After being told that he could return home at night and protect the rose, the boy became very serious. He promised to give his adult friend special stars. “Every person has his own stars” - the stars of the pilot will be able to laugh.

Very soon, a snake flashed near the Little Prince, biting him, and he fell silently and slowly.

Chapter 27

The pilot never told anyone about the Little Prince. He knew - the baby returned to his house, because the next morning he was not on the sand. And now the narrator loves to watch and listen to the stars, they either laugh quietly or cry.

Conclusion

Talking about the journey of the hero, the author speaks to us about eternal human values, about the importance of preserving childish purity and naivety in life, about the real perception of the world. Having studied brief retelling"The Little Prince", having become acquainted with the plot and characters, you can move on: read the full text and feel the life-affirming beginning of the fairy tale, where the adult hero began to hear the stars and see the world in a new way.

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my daughter

DEAR GUYS!

I want to tell you how this book was born. Here is her story. I have a daughter Sasha. Now she is a big girl. She herself now often says: “When I was little ...” So, when Sasha was very young, she was sick a lot. Then she had the flu, then a sore throat. And then my ears hurt. If you have ever had otitis media, then you do not need to explain how it hurts. And if it was not, then there is no need to explain either - you will never understand this.

Once Sasha's ear hurt so much that she cried for a whole day and almost could not sleep. I felt so sorry for her that I almost cried myself. And I read different books to her or told funny stories. So I told her about how I was little and threw my new ball under the car. Sasha really liked this story. She liked that dad was also small, he was also naughty and did not obey, and he was also punished. She remembered it. And now, as soon as she started to shoot in her ear, she immediately shouted: “Dad, dad, my ear hurts! Hurry, tell me how you were little!” And I told her everything that you are about to read. I chose funny stories: after all, it was necessary to cheer up a sick girl. And I also tried to make my daughter understand how bad it is to be greedy, braggart, arrogant. But this does not mean that I myself have been like this all my life. I just tried to remember only such cases. And when I didn’t have enough of them, I took them from other dads I knew. After all, each of them, too, was once small. So all these stories are not invented by me, but were actually.

Now Sasha has grown up. She is less ill and reads large, thick books herself.

But I decided that maybe other guys are also interested in learning about how one dad was little.

That's all guys, what I wanted to tell you. No, I'll tell you one more thing in confidence. This book has a sequel. It will be different for each of you. After all, every dad can tell how he was little. And mom too. I would like to listen to them myself.

Well, now everything. Goodbye, guys! I wish you happiness and health.

respect you

A. Raskin

When dad was still small and lived in the small town of Pavlovo-Posad, he was presented with a big ball of amazing beauty. This ball was like the sun. No, it was even better than the sun. First, you could look at him without squinting. And it was exactly four times more beautiful than the sun, because it had four colors. And the sun is only one color, and even that is difficult to see. One side of the ball was pink, like marshmallow, the other brown, like the most delicious chocolate. The top was blue like the sky, and the bottom was green like grass. Such a ball has never been seen in the small town of Pavlovo-Posad. They specially went to Moscow for him. But I think that in Moscow there were few such balls. Not only children came to see him, but also adults.

“This is the ball!” Everyone said.

And it was a really great ball. And dad was very proud. He acted as if he himself invented this ball, made it and painted it in four colors. When dad proudly went out into the street to play with his beautiful ball, the boys came running from all sides.

- Oh, what a ball! they said. - Let's play!

But dad grabbed his ball and said:

- I'm not giving it! This is my ball! Nobody has that! It was brought from Moscow! Stand back! Don't touch my ball!

And then the boys said:

- Oh, you greedy!

But dad still didn't give them his wonderful ball. He played with him alone. It's very boring to play alone. And the greedy dad deliberately played around the boys so that they would envy him.

And then the boys said:

- He is greedy. Let's not hang out with him!

And they didn't see him for two days. And on the third day they said:

- The ball is nothing to you. It's right. It's big and nicely painted. But if you throw it under a car, it will burst like the worst black ball. So there is nothing to turn up your nose so much.

My ball will never burst! - proudly said dad, who by that time was so arrogant, as if he himself had been painted in four colors.

- How it will burst! the boys laughed.

- No, it won't burst!

“Here comes the car,” said the boys. - Well, what are you? Drop it! Or scared?

And little dad threw his ball under the car. For a minute, everyone froze. The ball rolled between the front wheels and landed under the right rear wheel. The car all warped, moved the ball and rushed on. And the ball remained lying completely unharmed.

- Didn't burst! Didn't burst! Dad shouted and ran to his ball. But then there was such a noise, as if fired from a small cannon. It burst the ball. And when dad ran up to him, he saw only a dusty rubber rag, completely ugly and uninteresting. And then dad started crying and ran home. And the boys laughed with all their might.

- Bursted! Bursted! they shouted. "That's what you want, greedy!"

When dad ran home and said that he himself threw his wonderful new ball under the car, he was immediately spanked by his grandmother. In the evening, grandfather came home from work and also spanked him.

At the same time, he said:

- I don’t hit for the ball, but for stupidity.

And for a long time afterwards everyone was surprised: how could it be possible to throw such a good ball under a car?

Only a very stupid boy could do that! everyone said.

And for a long time everyone teased dad and asked:

Where is your new ball?

And only one uncle did not laugh. He asked his father to tell him everything from the very beginning. Then he said:

No, you're not stupid!

And dad was very happy.

“But you are greedy and boastful,” said the uncle. "And it's very sad for you." Anyone who wants to play alone with his ball is always left with nothing. This happens to both children and adults. So it will be for you all your life, if you remain the same.

And then dad was very scared, and wept with all his strength, and said that he did not want to be greedy and boastful. He cried so long and so loudly that his uncle believed him and bought a new ball. True, he was not so handsome. But then all the neighbor boys played with this ball. And it was fun, and no one teased dad with a greedy man.

When dad was still small, he was taken to the circus. It was very interesting. He especially liked the tamer of wild animals. He dressed very beautifully, called himself very beautifully, and all the lions and tigers were afraid of him. He had a whip and pistols, but he hardly used them.

“And the animals are afraid of my eyes!” he said from the arena. “My mind is my strongest weapon!” The wild beast cannot stand the human gaze!

Indeed, as soon as he looked at the lion, he sat down on the pedestal, jumped on the barrel and even pretended to be dead, unable to bear his gaze.

The orchestra played carcasses, the audience clapped their hands, everyone looked at the tamer, and he pressed his hands to his heart and bowed in all directions. That was awesome! And dad decided that he, too, would become a tamer. To begin with, he planned to tame with his gaze some not very wild beast. After all, my father was still small. He understood that such large animals as a lion and a tiger were too tough for him. You need to start with a dog and, of course, not a very big one, because big dog- it's almost a small lion. But a smaller dog would be just right.

For a long time I looked at this book by Ruskin and finally decided to buy it.
And I took several copies at once, as it turned out, not in vain. ALL copies have gone from hand to hand, and I again run to order this book, until it again disappeared from sale, as it already was.

Soooo....this is another great book with a lot of short stories, which Alexander Raskin tells his daughter Sashenka about his childhood, when he himself was a little boy, when he was teased in the yard, he learned to write, play the piano, was mischievous and naughty, went to first grade, then studied at school ... was fond of table tennis, hated German and read poetry on holidays, and... and what else can a boy aged 4 to 12-13 love-do-hate?

A wonderful light text, as if the author really sits right here next to him and talks animatedly and emotionally about his childhood. And it seems that I see all the emotions on the face of the already grown up "little dad" when he recalls all these events of his life, which he shares with his readers with such warmth, as with his daughter. And together with him you worry and laugh when little dad Shurochka is teased when he gets stuck on the wall at the gym class, when he tries to build the first stool in his life. And each story has its own ... thought (the word "morality" is too loud here, but the word "thought" is the very thing!).
The author does not teach or instruct readers, does not teach, but simply shares how he himself came to understand simple but important things.

The "little dad" was illustrated for us by the incomparable Lev Tokmakov. And what else is needed for a masterpiece? Even the serial cover didn't stop me :)
The stories in the book are different - some are sad ("How dad hunted a tiger", in which the boys stoned a kitten), some are funny, some are just deep meaning("How dad chose a profession" - what you need to become in life). Like life itself, the book is full of different events. Under the cut you can read the stories:
"How dad threw the ball under the car"
"How daddy tamed the dog"
"How dad chose a profession"
"How Dad Threw Bread"