Elephant Lyalka. Dragunsky V.

Funny Deniskin Stories are known to several generations: children, parents, grandparents. This is the most read and re -read legacy of the writer Viktor Yuzefovich Dragunsky. But few people know that Dragunsky in his youth worked on the Moscow Circus's arena with a red clown and described everything that he experienced in a lyrical story for adults today and daily. ” The main character of the story is the circus clown Nikolai Vetrov, a man whose work is to laugh people. A fragment of a story telling about a talented circus artist - a trained elephant, with a small author’s refinement turned into an excellent story for the children of the “elephant Lyalka.”

The plot of the story is simple: the elephant Lyalka fell ill, and the clown Nikolai Vetrov cured her, because That “firmly loved and respected”, and she was “more expensive than an old friend” for him. From this “small” story, a large story of a person with a good heart is built, a generous, disinterested, in love with his profession, who is tenderly and reverently related to his main audience - for whom the circus is a native home and a whole universe.

The story is also interesting from a cognitive point of view, since the author describes in detail the circus backstage.

The reissue of the book “The elephant Lyalka” revives the illustrations of the undeservedly forgotten artist Igor Kononov, who worked a lot with children's publishers in the 60-70s in the 60-70s XX century.

is recommended for children of senior preschool and primary school age.