To the board will go... Vasylkin!

«Children should be smarter than their parents», – mother used to say. But I can't seem to be smarter! That's why I ended up with a three in the quarter in Russian. It messes up my column of fours and... fives! Unfair: I write well, once I even composed a whole book about a speedy monkey. And then another story about how I lost my schoolbag. And about the terrible, unpleasant birthday of Liza Komarova. And more, and more… Alright, let's take it one step at a time!

My name is Dima Vasylkin, I study in the third grade 'A' and constantly find myself in funny situations. Not all of them seem funny right away – like, for example, when Kostiak and I got stuck at his house until nighttime. But I still love such cases – telling them later is a real pleasure! But what I don’t like is this: «To the board will go... Vasylkin!» – the words that our teacher Svetlana Alexeyevna says every day. Why? Is it not enough for me to have adventures without that «to the board»! Just consider!

The new book by Victoria Lederman is a collection of instructive and amusing stories from the life of a third grader, which are woven into a single "novel in stories", gradually revealing the hero to the reader. Moreover, the reader already knows this hero well: Vasylkin is so similar to any nine-year-old schoolboy! Victoria Lederman writes easily and engagingly. The author succeeds in creating a truthful and memorable character - just as she did in her previous books, which became real hits ("The Calendar of May", "The First-Year Student", "Only Eleven! or Shury-Mury in the Fifth 'D'", "There Will Be No Lessons!").