What I saw. Zoosad

Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov (1882-1938) is a famous children"s writer, teacher, traveler and researcher. Born in Veliky Novgorod in the family of a teacher of mathematics and pianists. The future writer spent his childhood in Odessa, in the gymnasium years became friends with K.I. Chukovsky. After graduating from the Imperial Novorossiysk University (1906), B.S. Zhitkov goes to his first voyage. Over the years of maritime service, he was lucky enough to become a participant in a trip around the world.
In 1923 B.S. Zhitkov moved to Petrograd. He often visited his school comrade Korney Chukovsky. The writer’s children were delighted with stories about the sea and travel, and Korney Ivanovich invited Zhitkov to transfer these stories to paper. So, with the light hand of Chukovsky, the career of Zhitkov-writer began. In 1924, his first book "Evil Sea" was published. The writer"s work more and more fascinated B.S. Zhitkov, he wrote many adventure stories and stories ("sea stories", "stories about technology", "what I saw").
A cycle of children"s stories "What I saw" the author himself called "production encyclopedia for four -year -old citizens". B.S. Zhitkov himself was a man of encyclopedic knowledge, friends jokingly called him a “living directory”, and thanks to bright and figurative descriptions, he managed to create a real "collection of answers to a variety of" why "" ". The prototype of the protagonist "what I saw" - the inquisitive Alyosha Pocheki - was Zhitkov’s neighbor in a communal apartment, Little Alyosha Nekrasov, who all the time asked adults a variety of questions. Thanks to the curiosity of Alyosha and readers will learn how the railway and the metro are arranged, which is needed for semaphore, who lives in the zoo, what animals are habits, who care for animals and much more