40 Devils and One Green Fly

For a ten-year-old boy, every day is wonderful! On Monday, you watched swallows flitting in the sky and wondered if they eat chocolate - it's incredibly mysterious. On Tuesday, you caught a huge cicada and listened to its buzzing - it's wildly interesting. On Wednesday... It must have been a beautiful day! If anything dampened it, it was school. Although, maybe you were lucky and for you school is enjoyable every weekday. You just had excellent teachers - like Giovanni Mosca, the author of this book. The Italian writer and journalist recalls both his childhood and his experience teaching in grades 4-5. His notes are both a literary text and diary entries. He is not always consistent in recounting events, but he is incredibly precise and truthful. «KompasGuid» reissues the book in the «Selected Works» series.

Despite the fact that the author was a student in the 1910s, a teacher in the 1930s, and now we are in the 21st century, his school sketches are modern and captivating. And the story about the green fly can easily be seen in the cinema magazine «Yeralash». In the instructive and touching tales, middle school readers will recognize themselves, while adults will notice various pedagogical tricks. And everyone will undoubtedly appreciate the charming illustrations by the artist Viktor Mineev.