I am a raccoon

The author of this book is the wonderful poet and writer Alexander Pavlovich Timofeevsky. Everyone knows his famous "Crocodile Gena's Song": "Let them run awkwardly...". Alexander Pavlovich has written song lyrics for many films, beautiful poems for adults and children,... and more than 30 animated films have been made based on his scripts.
And here is what Alexander Pavlovich says about raccoons: "Columbus meant to discover America. He discovered it. He went to wander along the shore and did something more important:
Christopher Columbus discovered the Raccoon! The Indians tirelessly, poor souls, compose legends and sagas about us, about our tricks, feints, and quirks.
We are like the little fox sister to them!"