Wall -up fairy tales. Tale of ancient times

How joyful and amazing it seems to be the world around the little Löla! Even the wolves who howl in the closest ravines from the village do not scare her. And why should she be afraid if the most important person in the world is nearby - her mother? Mom is a teacher, and little Polynovites love to listen to her stories, and they themselves share with Tatyana Dmitrievna interesting stories.
When Lyol ​​grows up and she will be called Olga Dmitrievna, she will often recall a village childhood. And her son, the future writer Yuri Koval, these truthful stories will seem magical. Later he will call them "wormwood fairy tales", very accurately choosing the name. After all, when you read these stories and consider the illustrations created by the artist Nikolai Ustinov, it seems that the whole book is permeated by the steppe wind, saturated with wormwood - beloved by all Polynovites with silver grass, the smell of which is simultaneously joyful and a little bitter. Like any memories in general.
For children of secondary school age