Red beard

Author: Yuri Koval
Illustrator: Alexey Charugin
Publisher: Melik-Pashaev
ISBN: 978-5-00041-236-7
Pages: 64 (Offset)
Cover type: 7B - hard (thick paper or cardboard)
Finishing: Embossed
Illustrations: Color
Dimensions: 268x206x11 mm

This small collection was bound to come into being. It includes very simple, very clear, and at the same time wildly imaginative prose and poetry. They are united by a unique tone, gentle absurdity, and the authors' good humor.
Two wonderful, talented people—Yuri Koval and Leonid Mezinov—collaborated for a while. This is how "The Red Beard" and "The Tale of the Teapot" came to be—whether tall tales or pure inventions.
Fitting the heroes of these funny stories, Yuri Koval assembled a mind-boggling company in his poems. Here you'll find curious elephants, crocodiles growing in a garden bed, cats and dogs of every color and breed, and a cyclist—just imagine!—with cuckoo birds on his head and nightingales on his shoes, as well as the clever Ivan hiding in a chest, and even a king with Lilliputians. All these characters are so familiar, funny, and endearing that readers of all ages fall completely and irrevocably in love with them from the very first lines.
With childlike sincerity, illustrator Alexey Charugin has created a bright, joyful, fairytale world populated by colorful characters.
Recommended for preschool and primary school children, as well as for anyone who appreciates fine literary language and the magical flight of creative thought.
For preschool children

Contents
The Red Beard. (With Leonid Mezinov)
The Tale of the Teapot. (With Leonid Mezinov)
Traly-vali! Tru-lyu-lyu! Poems