The book includes well-known works by Russian authors of the 19th century: "The Humpbacked Horse" by P. Yershov, "The Black Hen" by A. Pogorelsky, "The Little Town in the Snuffbox" by V. Odoyevsky, "The Scarlet Flower" by S. Aksakov, "Gray Neck" by D. Mamin-Sibiryak, "The Traveling Frog" by V. Garshin.
Beautiful fairy tales, where alongside everyday reality exists another amazing life, teach kindness, justice, honesty, and faith in miracles. The combination of imagination with truth makes the real world even more colorful, while the fairy tale is perceived as real: the humpbacked horse solves the most complex tasks ("The Humpbacked Horse"), an entire musical little town is placed in a snuffbox ("The Little Town in the Snuffbox"), and underground, it turns out, live the inhabitants of a whole kingdom ("The Black Hen, or Underground Inhabitants").