Happy Birthday!

Birthday is always a happy day. Even if you hatched from an egg in winter, and on the twenty-ninth of February, like little crossbills. Or if you were born in a fox den, like ducklings whose parents chose the home of a red predator for their nest. Or, having barely seen the big and noisy surrounding world, you set off on your first perilous journey, like a little chick.

The kind and educational stories of Nikolai Sladkov are filled with sincere love for all living things. These short stories will reveal to children the beauty and charm of nature, its wisdom and mysteries, and teach them to treat all our smaller brothers with care. And the wonderful and recognizable illustrations by Nikita Charushin will make the acquaintance with fluffy, bushy, and winged inhabitants of forests and steppes, mountains and water bodies an amazing and memorable event for the little ones.