Anya and Manya

Author: I. Grekova
Illustrator: Alexander Sergeyevich Sokolov
Publisher: Melik-Pashaev
ISBN: 978-5-00041-325-8
Pages: 56 (Offset)
Cover type: 7B - hardback (thick paper or cardboard)
Illustrations: Color
Dimensions: 266x215x11 mm

The two wonderful heroines of the novella, friends Anya and Manya, - have a truly fairy-tale life. Finding themselves at a forest dacha with the kindergarten, they decided not to sleep for a whole night (and then another night, and another). And here is what came of it.
It turns out, if you try not to fall asleep and quietly sneak out of the bedroom, you can chat with a huge talking Hedgehog, a creaking Wardrobe, and the Moon lying in the flowerbed - sometimes round and plump, sometimes thin. You can also fly through the night sky and sit on the clouds.
The book is written in a light, lyrical style, with gentle humor, mainly in the dialogues, in funny children's (and sometimes adult) remarks, in poems. Magical adventures and the girls' real life in kindergarten are harmoniously combined. Some natural phenomena (full moon, new moon), the behavior of forest dwellers are explained.
The book "Anya and Manya" was written by Elena Sergeyevna Venttsel - a unique woman, a mathematician, an author of probability theory textbooks, a prose writer. Her literary pseudonym is I. Grekova (from the name of the 25th letter of the Latin alphabet "y", which in mathematics is used to denote an unknown or variable quantity, as well as the ordinate axis).
I. Grekova wrote excellent books for adults. One can only regret that the novella "Anya and Manya" is her only prose work for children.
Recommended for children from 4 to 6 years old.
The book will help adults awaken in children, who are going to kindergarten for the first time, an interest in this new stage of their life (or, not unlikely, even overcome their fear).

Contents
1. Who are Anya and Manya?
2. Kindergarten at the dacha
3. The first night
4. Bad behavior
5. The second night
6. A day without incidents
7. The third night
8. The wind
9. The fourth night
10. Who wanders at night?
11. The fifth (and last) night