Illustrations by Frieda Wiegand. How do Russian children learn? What topics do they encounter first in their reading books? And what were the topics before Perestroika? This book was created in 1991 from reading texts of Russian schoolchildren and texts for children by famous authors such as Kharms, Mayakovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Churushin, and Chukovsky. For those who don't know much Russian yet but want to discover special texts, this is a delightful reading treat! It includes literary works, both rhymed and unrhymed, tongue twisters, riddles, brain teasers, humorous verses, and folk tales.