Notes of Gosha Kunitsyn, a student of class 4 A

Gosha will, of course, also become a writer in the future - right now, he is just an ordinary schoolboy trying his hand at literature. The first story the boy wrote was actually in the fourth grade. It wasn’t even... a story, but a fairy tale - about a Kolobok fleeing from a Fox. And also about the three little pigs and Harry Potter: they are all wonderful characters, and how great it was to introduce them to each other! However, mom and dad somehow didn’t like their son’s work - this is how the future laureate of all literary awards first encountered ruthless criticism. Nevertheless, the book is not about how a ten-year-old hero pursues his writing dream. It is a collection of moderately instructive and funny stories from the life of an ordinary Russian schoolboy of our time, with familiar and understandable aspirations, victories, and mishaps. Clearly influenced by the eternal classics - Viktor Dragunsky, Nikolai Nosov, Vladislav Krapivin, Edith Nesbit, and Astrid Lindgren - the book about Gosha Kunitsyn is also distinctly modern in terms of language and in terms of ‘atmospheric’ details.