The Old Man in Checkered Pants

Irina Mikhailovna Pivovarova (1939–1986) was a wonderful children's writer and poet. Her stories, novellas, and poems have become classics of domestic literature for children. The detective novella "The Old Man in Checkered Pants" is a funny and captivating story that happened to a modest and shy schoolboy Pavlik Pomidorov. Read I. Pivovarova's novella and you will find out what turned yesterday's unpopular boy into a hero and who this mysterious old man in checkered pants is. Illustrations by K. Pochtennaya. For middle school age.