The publication of a book for children by Viktor Petrovich Astafiev is really necessary. How far we have gone from ourselves, our childhood, simple earthly life! As it turns out, the market age, the web of the Internet, social networks have managed to destroy a lot in us. In us, in the elders, still a little protected by age and experience. And in children... What is there, even in village children, left of the river and the forest, the sky and the lively street life and friendship? Also, even before school, there is a TV, cartoons on tablets to keep the child busy.And here there is air and light, still a little audible to the village children, and to the city children it is already a truly parallel world, almost the 19th century. But this is in the word and air of Astafiev’s prose - the Motherland, the most necessary thing in it, what enters the blood and becomes life: swifts on the river, a tree in the yard, the happiness of a summer evening when you can’t drive home, grandmother, friends across the street ... The book will be all the more necessary and expensive because parents will read it to their children (this is even a direct condition for such a book) in order to be together, hear the world in one heart and be at home, in their homeland.Editor's design preserved in pdf A4 format.