Famous fantasy writer Elena Haetskaya for a question, whether she wants to start writing children's books, categorically replied that all the good books are already written. They do not even all have time to read for one childhood, and no one who, in the end, no one.
In general, both the writer and I probably agree. But there is no adult who does not mind to plunge in sense of childhood. And so that everything is familiar and the same time - just as well ... Do you want to know the right way? Read those books of old, proven writers who have been little known in the USSR. We reversed the whole list."Fairy tale"
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist was so unfortunate that we died for a long time: Dickens writes about poor suffering children. But the "magic fairy tale", on the contrary, splashes optimism and life. The history of the seven-year-old girl, the oldest sister of eighteen children, whose mom is sick, the cook escaped, dad disappears at work for pathetic pennies, and she managed to arrange everything as it is impossible and all as it should be organized, perhaps very inspires and allows you to take a lot in life near a different angle. It turns out that neither the dishes themselves is not washed, no dinner is preparing himself, and someone should worry as a daughter or son sat down on a clean kitchen for a cutely covered table and root first, second and compote. And the ending fairy tale is a good topic for long serious conversations about how humanity gradually became kinder. Because it will be strange if the child nor a drop will not be surprised that a happy end is when a girl who has nursed with eighteen children, promised thirty-five-five in the future, and the neighbor's croche-pug took and died.
"Peter Peng in the Kensington Garden"
James Barry
It seems to each read the adventures of Peter Pan and Girls Vandy on the island of NOTINBET. But that's what it is not the only book about a boy who does not grow up, not everyone knows. In 1906, James Barry took several heads of his novel "White Bird", a little processed them and released the book from which we learn what was with the boy Peter before he began to rule the island of Netinebook - after he at the age of seven Days ran away from babysitter and began to live in the usual city park.
"Plague dogs"
Richard Adams.
"Cake C Sky"
Gianni Rodari
Signora Rodari was very loved in the Soviet Union, translated, published, turned his works in Films and cartoons, but for some reason most of the former Ocean and Pioneers will remember only the "Adventures of Chippolino" and "Gessomino in the country of liars". Some remember another "travel blue arrows." However, Rodari was good and as the author of short fabulous stories. One of his most famous collections begins with a wonderful story about how the UFO attacks the town near Rome, which is just a large flying cake. Maybe no special morality in the fairy tales of Rodari not to find (well, in most of them), but they are so surprisingly bright, which is undoubtedly carrying a huge charge of good and for children and adults.
"Tales of old England"
Rudyard Kipling
Isn't it strange that, reading the Englishman, we learn more about India and Egypt than about England? But the old soldier of Kipling, in fact, did not forget the plots of cute homeland at all. Collections of the stories "Pak from the Hills" and "Gifts and Fairies" are based on the historic and magic folklore of Great Britain, but moreover, there are no excessive didacticity. We simply plunge into the plot that begins with the Dan boy and the Yuna girl get acquainted with a small magic creature named Pak, old enough, so that it is and to hit the successful memories.
"Little Wheel"
James Greenwood
In the USSR, they loved repressing books about the adventures of poor children from Western countries, but most often in connection with this topic, "Oliver Twist" Dickens, "Without Family" and "Silver Skates" Dodge remember. But in the nineteenth century, Russian children loved Read more and Greenwood. After the revolution, he was also not forgotten, but was published and reprinted all the time a novel about the little obsolete from London slums. I must say that Greenwood knew perfectly, what he writes about. Like our Gilyarovsky, Greenwood was actively introduced into the dark world of the London Poor and Crime. The series of his essays, published in a pretty constructed form in the newspaper, caused a considerable shock and scandal. So the story of a little obsolete is not just a tears, but the symptoms of the biographies of hundreds of London babies.
"Sibilochka"
Lydia Charskaya
In the nineties, the dynamic, light-reading and similar to each other, as the twins, the books of Charsa entered into a large fashion. They were added to the Chesttomatia for younger school age, released in the gift version, read on the radio. But, we will be honest, only two of the more than eighty books managed to truly writer. One racist, and the other is "Siberian". In "Siberiopka" - the aroma of the sowing zero twentieth century, the whole of the sentimentality, for which the Nervical young ladies are loved, but in the sane quantities and intermitted by dashing adventures. So, the daughter of Prince, lost by him in the taiga and does not know about her origin, it turns out in St. Petersburg, and the guardian sells it in the circus ... What's next? Take and read!