Vovka who saddled the bomb

How do you not remember Vovka? The very one who saddled the bomb? He still shouted then, they say, this is not a bomb, but a shell: "And once he sniffed and did not explode, now he certainly won’t explode!" In general, Vovka was dragged from that shell - it was not to get bored with him!
Vovka and his best friend Vlad do not know the word "boredom" at all: these fidgets are constantly doing something. Once, playing the war, Vovka accidentally knocked his eyes - and then envied with white envy: how to be wounded to be honorable! And another time, the boys organized the pet store an uninterrupted supply of canaries - know yourself, take care of the birds correctly, and they themselves breed. That"s just the store then closed: the shell hit it, the other, not the one that Vovka saddled.
The story of Yuri Nikitinsky, continuing the Nosovskoye instructive tradition, attracts many important topics - primarily the war. Regular artillery shots, of course, change the life of the boys, but remain as if a background, something that their lives for the time being did not directly concern. This is the saving property of the children"s psyche that the author expertly reveals.
The book "Vovka, who saddled the bomb" awarded awards at the Korneychukov Prize in 2015, as well as at the literary competition "New Children"s Book" in 2016. Yuri Nikitinsky (born in 1970) in a quarter century in children"s literature became the author More than twenty children"s books. The illustrations of Ksenia Derek strengthen this piercing story about Vovka.
For primary and secondary school age