A pilot for special assignments. Return of the clipper "Krechet". Krapivin V.P.

The main characters of the Krapivin books are boys. The author puts them into swimming through the stormy seas of everyday life, without making them concessions and discounts on boyish age. His path, and everyone has it, the hero had to go through himself. Preserving yourself. Because such qualities as honor, courage, justice, never lose brilliance, like a sword in a musketeer hand. Such a small musketeer appears before us the fifth grader Alyoska in the story “Pilot for Special Orders”. In search of a lost toy frigate, he finds himself in a wonderful country, in the fairy -tale city of Vetrogogonsk, in which there is a special ship museum, where all the missing models of boats attracts like a magnet. And Antoshka Topolkov, a pilot for special assignments, delivers it to this amazing city. His work consists in flying through protected forests, a distant and trivial kingdoms and other fabulous territories and assist people. Difficult work, but very important...

the fourth -grador Vladik Areshkin from the story “Return of the Cliper“ Kretic ”” Two real friends: Gosha, a retired ship dwarf, a grunks and a poet, composing a poem about the sail clerk “Krechtc”, on which he once swam. And Tilka, a cheerful glass boy who loves puddles and rain, and so that the rain is not made sad and monotonous, he, along with his friends, the same transparent men, like him, dance among flying rain droplets to the sounds of flutes, violins and drums. This story about the victory of life over death, victory, possible only when a sense of responsibility and friendship is stronger than fear and desire to close in itself.