Old man Hottabych. Lagin L.I.

At first, the sixth grader Volodya Kostykov was very lucky: from the bottom of the river he took out an old sealed jug. And when he opened it, a grateful genie appeared from there. Even too grateful. And in this Volka was not lucky. He no longer knew where to hide from the good deeds of Hottabych. This went on for quite some time, until Hottabych began to slowly understand that Volka and his friends are people of a different era, and their values ​​are completely different. But the boys also learned something from Hottabych. Patience. Respect for old age. And the most important thing is that even with an elderly and slightly strange person, you can not be friends tightly from this world.

for secondary school age.

a hilarious and instructive fairy tale that in Life is always a place for a miracle.

You live a jinn in a bottle and do not notice how 3,500 years have passed, and you are no longer on the fragrant spicy aromas of the East, but in the industrial Moscow of the twentieth century! And the new owner - the boy Volka - does not want to be a master at all and receive an inconceivably expensive gifts. And he doesn’t really need a genie. But he is ready to talk about how the world has changed, and to teach the inhabitant of the jug of friendship without servility. In return, the old wizard performs funny little miracles and gradually becomes the best friend of Volka and his friends.

This book will make a child laugh more than once while reading, but a deep meaning lurks behind a light and fascinating plot. She talks about eternal values, respect for age, patience and the ability to accept others as they are. No wonder the work has a deafening success for decades - it was filmed, put in theaters, beat on creative cabbage.