Shamike

If the harsh Seton -Tompson had not written "Royal Analostanka", the unforgettable Roland of Bykov would not have caught fire to make a film on this work and would not order the script for the brilliant Yuri Koval - a writer with a merciless dumb eye, but an infinitely kind and sympathetic look.
In the end, nothing came out of the cinematographic venture, but the story “Shamaic”, illustrated by Ruben Varshamov, an animal artist who knew every God"s creature along and across, and even that and even even more so.
A gray kitten with black stripes on the back and white marks on the nose, ears and tip of the tail is orphaned. Left alone, he wandered into the shop of the seller "birds, animals and canaries" Japanese Mali, who was not really a Japanese, but deliberately squinted so that everyone thought he was from the island of Hokkaido. There was still a Negro Jim, who saved the kitten, when he almost fell into the teeth of the fox. Jim and Mali became the main figures in the life of the kitten. It was Jim who called him a shamike, and Mali subsequently came up with the royal analostan breed in order to more expensive to sell an unusually beautiful slum cat.
Shamike managed to survive in a contradictory and hostile world and get out of the whole and unharmed of the most hopeless situations. The story of a small tramp turned out to be strict and sad, but at the end of the book, Yuri Koval leaves Shamike hope for a normal life.
This difficult book, far from vanilla children"s sweetness, written by pure Russian language, with sad-ironic drawings, will turn the soul of a child of primary and middle school age, ready to perceive complex everyday topics (death, separation, poverty, thirst for freedom, lonely, lonely People and animals in the indifferent world).
For primary and secondary school age