All the adventures of Ellie and Totoshka. The Wizard of Oz. Urfin Juss and his wooden soldiers. Seven underground

In 1939, for the first time, Alexander Volkov’s fairy tale “Wizard of the Emerald City” with drawings of the wonderful artist Nikolai Radlov was released. The heroes of the book became one of the most beloved by readers of childhood and youth. The collection includes two more fairy tales of Volkov, where the main character is a girl from Kansas Ellie ("Urfin Juss and his wooden soldiers" and "seven underground kings") Very little is known about the author himself, his name is not even mentioned in the large biographical dictionary "Russian writers of the 20th century". This book replenishes this significant gap of the literary life of Russia, including Volkov’s most complete autobiography.
On separate pages next to the illustrations are reviews of children, their grandparents about the first impressions after reading the fairy tale about Ellie and her faithful comrades Scarecrow, the iron lumberjack and others. Sometimes these letters are sad, even tragic, but they are talking about the enduring value of this book