Shibaev author. Alexander Shibaev

Somehow, unexpectedly, I remembered the story “Absurd Things.” But I don’t know anything about its author, Alexander Shibaev. I wanted to find information about this talented children's writer. I'm sharing with you.

Alexander Alexandrovich Shibaev (1923 - 1979), a native of Volkhov, shared the fate of his generation: he fought on the Leningrad front, was seriously wounded, struggled with illness for many years... And he composed cheerful, joyful children's poems.

His two “thick” books - "Hold hands, friends"(1977) and “Native language, be friends with me”(1981) - in terms of its significance and artistic value, it will outweigh the numerous reprints of some of the current popularized poets. These two books turned out to be “much heavier volumes.”

There were also thin books, publications in periodicals, in various collections and anthologies, so Shibaev’s poems reached the recipient, that is, children, and this is the main thing.

A man of rare modesty and delicacy, according to the testimony of people who knew him well, the poet did not strive to be in the public eye, he simply did his favorite job very well, without betraying his talent. But things never came to the point of recognizing Shibaev as a classic, a poet of the first magnitude. Understanding people - for example, the poet Mikhail Yasnov, an undisputed expert and subtle promoter of real poetry - give Shibaev an honorable place in children's poetry of the last century.

Shibaev's originality and skill are obvious; he worked in the genre of play poetry, where only a person with truly remarkable talent can invent something new. Especially in poetry that “plays” with the native language.

For children, Shibaev’s poems are a balm for the soul, because he does not hide the fact that the richness of the Russian language is difficult to master, it’s like finding a treasure, that the language must be felt (and for this you need to be able to feel at all!), but this is not a hopeless matter. His poetry is a rare type of creativity, when an absolutely frivolous, “humorous” matter gives a serious, vital result: the child begins to understand the beauty of his native language, treat it as a living being, love it and take care of it.

Every teacher and every schoolchild should adopt poems, tongue twisters, all sorts of confusions and inversions invented by Shibaev, and then the native language will fulfill one of its most important functions - others will begin to understand you. And I will not dwell on the immense pleasure from Shibaev’s poetic and linguistic discoveries, which today’s native speakers define as “high,” leaving the readers to become discoverers and lifelong friends of the poet themselves.

Alan Alexander Milne

(1882 – 1956)

Born in 1882 in London. His father was the head of a small private school, where he studied. After graduating from Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics, Milne began working as a journalist. At twenty-four, he became deputy editor-in-chief of the famous humor magazine Punch, and published his essays there weekly.
But Milne’s books for children brought him real world fame (unexpectedly for him).
Milne started with poetry, because according to Winnie the Pooh, it is not you who find poetry, but it you. The children's poem, written as a joke and published at the insistence of his wife, soon became very popular. The first book of poems also had a great resonance. And the famous saga of Winnie the Pooh made Milne a classic.

His books: “When We Were Little” (1924; collection of poems), “Now We Are Six” (1927), “Winnie the Pooh” (1926) and “The House on Pooh Edge” (1928; Russian retelling by B. Zakhoder entitled “Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all”, 1960).

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Alexander Alexandrovich Shibaev

(1923 – 1979)

Alexander Shibaev was born in 1923. He composed funny, joyful children's poems. He is a man of rare modesty and delicacy, he did not strive to be visible, he simply did what he loved very well, without betraying his talent.

For children, Shibaev’s poems are a balm for the soul, because he does not hide the fact that the richness of the Russian language is difficult to master, it’s like finding a treasure, that the language must be felt (and for this you need to be able to feel at all!), but this is not a hopeless matter. His poetry is a rare type of creativity, when an absolutely frivolous, “humorous” matter gives a serious, vital result: the child begins to understand the beauty of his native language, treat it as a living being, love it and take care of it. Every teacher and every schoolchild should adopt poems, tongue twisters, all sorts of confusions and inversions invented by Shibaev, and then the native language will fulfill one of its most important functions - others will begin to understand you.

Poems: “Santa Claus”, “The letter got lost”, “Native language, be friends with me.”

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Arkady Petrovich GAYDAR (Golikov)

(1904 - 1941)

Gaidar Arkady Petrovich was born on January 9, 1904 in the family of a teacher in Lgov. He spent his childhood in Arzamas. He was a physically strong and tall guy. He had to fight in Ukraine, on the Polish front, and in the Caucasus.
In December 1924, Gaidar left the army due to illness after being wounded. He started writing books.
In the fall of 1932, Gaidar decided to settle in Moscow. At that time he was still little known and not rich. But his works had already begun to be published in Moscow and soon brought him widespread fame and glory. In the 1930s, many of his most famous works were published, such as: “School”, “Distant Lands”, “Military Secret”, “Smoke in the Forest”, “The Blue Cup”, “Chuk and Gek”, “Fate” drummer."
During the Second World War, Gaidar traveled a lot around the country, met many people, and led a busy life. He wrote his books on the go, on trains, on the road. He recited entire pages by heart and then wrote them down in notebooks. Gaidar died in battle on October 26, 1941.

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Agnia Lvovna Barto

(1906 - 1981)

Born on February 4 in Moscow in the family of a veterinarian. She received a good home education, led by her father. She studied at the gymnasium, where she began writing poetry. At the same time, she studied at a choreographic school, but did not show much talent in this activity. In 1925, nineteen-year-old Agnia Barto published her first book, “The Chinese Little Wang Li.” Agnia got the opportunity to communicate with other poets.

Writers, musicians, and actors often visited Barto's house - Agnia Lvovna's non-conflict character attracted a variety of people. In addition, Barto traveled a lot. In 1937 she visited Spain.

The poet's talent manifested itself most clearly in his funny poems. And how can one not smile in a poem where one reads the confession of a great sufferer who is ready to endure any torment in order to buy a bullfinch:

How hard I tried!

I didn't fight with girls...

When will I see the girl?

I'll shake my fist at her.

And I quickly go to the side,

It's like I don't know her.

Many poems are named after children.

Poems about kids and for kids have gained nationwide and undying popularity.

Children remember “Teddy Bear”, “Bull”, “Elephant”, “Airplane” and other poems from the “Toys” cycle quickly and eagerly.

Agnia Barto was always on time and everywhere. She wrote poetry, plays, and film scripts. She translated. She met with readers in schools, kindergartens, boarding schools, and libraries.

Agnia has always been interested in raising children. She went to orphanages and schools and talked a lot with the children. Traveling around different countries, I came to the conclusion that a child of any nationality has a rich inner world. Barto's poems have been translated into many languages ​​of the world.

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Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov

(1882 – 1938)

Boris Zhitkov was born on August 30, 1882 in Novgorod into an intelligent family. His father was a teacher, so Boris received his primary education at home. The first years of life in the biography of Boris Zhitkov were spent in Odessa.He worked as a navigator on a sailing ship, was the captain of a research vessel, an ichthyologist, a shipbuilding engineer, a teacher of physics and drawing, and a traveler.But his constant hobby was literature.

Zhitkov's story was first published in 1924. He expressed his knowledge and impressions from travel in his works. Thus, in the biography of Boris Zhitkov, many series of adventure and instructive stories were created. Among his most famous publications: “The Evil Sea” (1924), “Sea Stories” (1925), “Seven Lights: Essays, Stories, Novels, Plays” (1982), “Stories about Animals” (1989), “Stories for Children "(1998).. The writer died on October 19, 1938 in Moscow.

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Viktor Vladimirovich Golyavkin

(1929-2001)

Was born August 31 1929 V Baku . Father Vladimir Sergeevich worked as a teachermusic , so it always sounded in the housepiano , and my sons were taught music. But one day Victor drew caricatures of the guests. Then the father gave his son a book about painting and artists. Victor read all the books about fine art.

Victor was only 12 years old when it startedThe Great Patriotic War . His father immediately went to the front and Victor became the eldest man in the family. He drew cartoons ofHitler And fascists .

Later Victor left forSamarkand and entered art school. The future artist learns about the life and art of the East, this greatly enriches him. After sunny bright citiesAsia he's moving to Leningrad , where it entersAcademy of Arts . Leningrad at that time attracted him with its museums and art monuments. The entire city was built in Western European style. He likes this style because of its responsiveness to the events of human life.

Along with his paintings, Golyavkin creates short stories. First, they began publishing stories for children in the magazines “Koster” and “Murzilka”. IN1959 When Golyavkin was already thirty years old, the first book of children's stories, “Notebooks in the Rain,” was published. Adult stories first appeared insamizdat in 1960, in the magazineAlexandra Ginzburg "Syntax"; publication in official publications took place much later. Some early stories were published in 1999-2000.

The peculiarity of the writer’s stories is their brevity along withwitty friendlyhumor . The heroes of his stories are always funny, but active and charming. Some of the shortest stories are such stories as “Drawing”, “Four Colors”, “Friends”, “Sick”, for example, the story “Drawing”:

Alyosha drew trees, flowers, grass, mushrooms, the sky, the sun and even a hare with colored pencils.

What's missing here? - he asked dad.

There’s enough of everything here,” dad answered.

What's missing here? - he asked his brother.

There’s enough of everything,” said the brother.

Then Alyosha turned the drawing over and wrote on the back in these big letters: AND STILL THE BIRDS SINGED

Now,” he said, “there’s enough of everything!”

Such short stories are often found in the writer.

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Genrikh Veniaminovich Sapgir

Born in Biysk, Altai Territory, the son of a Moscow engineer. Since 1944 he has been a member of the literary studio of the poet and artist. During the Soviet years, Sapgir published widely as a children's writer (he wrote the scripts for the classic cartoons “Losharik”, “The Engine from Romashkov”, and the lyrics to the song “The Green Carriage”.

He also acted as a translator.In poems and stories based on the detachment of reality, he combined humor and irony, realistic everyday episodes.

The first collection of his works is “First Acquaintance”

Died in 1999.

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Evgeniy Lvovich Schwartz

(1896-1958)

Born on October 21 (Old Style - October 9), 1896 in Kazan, in the family of a doctor. 1914 - 1916 - after graduating from high school, he entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow University. 1917 - 1921 - leaves for Rostov-on-Don and gets a job at the Theater Workshop. In his youth he performed on the stage of a studio theater, sang and danced beautifully, and mastered the art of pantomime. Evgeny Schwartz was predicted to have a great future as an actor, but he was attracted by literature and left the stage.

1921 - together with the troupe he moved to Petrograd and left the stage. In the 20s, Schwartz became the secretary of the writer K.I. Chukovsky, met famous Petrograd writers. It was at this time that he began to write poetic feuilletons and make satirical sketches.

1924 - moved to Leningrad and became a permanent employee of the children's department of the State Publishing House, devoted a lot of energy to the Leningrad magazine. Later he took an active part in the creation of the first Soviet books for children, and worked in the children's magazines "Hedgehog" and "Chizh". The fairy tale plays “New Adventures of Puss in Boots” and “Little Red Riding Hood” appear on the pages of the “Chizh” magazine.

Among the works are stories, plays, fairy tales "The Story of the Old Balalaika" (1924), "Underwood" (1929 - 1930), "Treasure" (1929 - 1930), "The Naked King" (1934), "The Adventures of Shura and Marusya" ( 1937), "Alien Girl" (1937), "The New Adventures of Puss in Boots" (1937), "Little Red Riding Hood" (1937), "Cinderella" (1938), "The Snow Queen" (1938), "The Naked King" ( 1934), “Shadow” (1940), “Under the Linden Trees of Berlin” (1941, written together with M. Zoshchenko), “One Night”, “Far Land”, “Dragon” (1944), “First-Grader” (1949), "An Ordinary Miracle" (1956), "The Tale of a Brave Soldier." The films “Cinderella”, “First-Grader”, “Don Quixote”, “An Ordinary Miracle” and others were shot based on his scripts. A tale of lost time.

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Elena Aleksandrovna Blaginina

(1903 – 1989)

Elena Blaginina was born on May 27, 1903. Elena is the daughter of a baggage cashier, the granddaughter of a priest. She was going to become a teacher. Every day, in any weather, in homemade shoes with rope soles (the time was difficult: the twenties), she walked seven kilometers from home to the Kursk Pedagogical Institute. But the desire to write turned out to be stronger.
Elena Alexandrovna came to children's literature in the early 30s. It was then that a new name appeared on the pages of the magazine “Murzilka” - E. Blaginina. Everyone loved her and her poems - lovely poems about what is near and dear to children: about the wind, about the rain, about the rainbow, about birches, about apples, about the garden and, of course, about the children themselves, about their joys and sorrows.
Elena Alexandrovna lived a long life and worked constantly. She wrote poems sparkling with humor, “teasers,” “counting books,” “tongue twisters,” songs, and fairy tales.

Elena Alexandrovna dedicated a lot of poems to her mother. Mom is the most important word in the life of every person. In her poems, Blaginina taught children to love, respect, appreciate, cherish and be kind to the most important person for them.

Mom finished singing the song,
Mom dressed the girl:
Red dress with polka dots,
The shoes are new on the feet...
This is how my mother pleased me -
I dressed my daughter up for May.
This is what mom is like -
Golden right!

The poetess tried to choose words that every child could understand and topics that would be interesting to all children. Her poems are pure and naive. She draws readers' attention to the vision of miracles that fill ordinary life.

What juices fermented in it,
To help this miracle?
Or the winds woke him up
All day yesterday and all night?

The children always received the poetess wonderfully and adored her poems. The characters in Blaginin's poems - the wind, rain, apples, rainbows, garden, birch trees - are close and dear to children. In poetry they could recognize themselves, their joys and experiences.

Elena Blaginina died in 1989.



Literary reading lesson

topic: a. Shibaev “Who will find the word?”

Cel And: enrich children's vocabulary; develop the ability to use various forms of verbal politeness; develop coherent speech; teach work in pairs.

Planned results:


Personal

understand what you read, find the necessary information in the text (selective reading); identify unclear words, be interested in their meaning; highlight the main thing; make a small plan; navigate the book by cover, title page, annotation and contents (table of contents); navigate through books (P-1.); establish an elementary logical cause-and-effect relationship between the events and actions of the characters in the work; perform analysis actions, identifying the subtext and idea of ​​the work; compare characters from one work and from different works according to given criteria; make hypotheses in the process of predicting what is being read; analyze the features of the linguistic design of the text; rank books and works; justify your statements (P-2.).

During the classes

I. Organizational moment.

II. Checking homework.

III. Setting lesson goals. Introduction to the topic. Preparatory exercises.

Teacher(reads a poem).

Poems play hide and seek,

There’s no one to drive...

Who wants a riddle?

Find clues?

Everybody wants,

C'mon! –

The game begins!..

Can you guess what we will do in class today?(Play with words.)

IV. Work on the topic of the lesson.

    Preparatory exercises.

Exercise “Photo Eye”.Read and remember.

Trap

NET

furrow

cabin

accordion

Goats

The meaning of which word is unknown to you? Who will try to explain?
– List the words that were in this column. What words do you remember?

2. Tongue twister(slide).

Sasha walked along the highway and sucked on a dryer.
– Reading with acceleration.
– reading with logical emphasis on 1 word, etc.

3. Game “Find a word in a word”(slide).

The word "Gastronomy". What does it mean? (Groceries store.)

astronomer
agronomist
monster
note

    Getting to know the biography.

Alexander Alexandrovich Shibaev(1923–1979), poet, trained as a professional military man and artilleryman. Graduated from the 3rd Leningrad Artillery School (1942), participated in the Great Patriotic War. After being wounded (1943) – commander of the cargo escort department.

He published his first poem for children (“About a Braggart”) in 1957 in the Lenin Sparks newspaper, and in 1959 he published his first book, “Girlfriends.”

Most of the books published by Shibaev (about fifteen in total) are well illustrated and represent integral works in which the word and the image are as a single whole.

Main collections: “The Letter Got Lost” (1965); "Naughty Letters" (1966); "Dot, Dot, Comma" (1970); “A lot of trouble with letters” (1971); “Poems Play Hide and Seek” (1975).

The final collections “Native Language, Be Friends with Me” (1981) and “Magic Language” (1996) were published posthumously.

3. Initial acquaintance with the work, students reading A. Shibaev’s poem “Who will find the word?”

Why did you smile while reading poetry? What made you happy?(We often made mistakes and chose the wrong word.)

What helped you find the correct answer?(Understanding meaning and rhyme.)

3 . Physical education minute

You and me

The turn has come

Play the game

"VICE VERSA".

I'll say the word

HIGH(rise on tiptoes)

And you will answer:

LOW(sit down).

I'll say the word

FAR(spread your arms wide)

And you will answer

CLOSE(cotton).

I'll say the word

CEILING(rise on your toes)

And you will answer:

(sit down).

I'll say the word

LOST,

And you will say...

I'll tell you a word

COWARD,

You will answer:

BRAVE.

Now

START

I will say, -

Well, answer:

John Ciardi

We continue the game “Who will find the word?”

Look, everyone has an envelope on your desks. Read what is written on it.(And what a word - very expensive!)

Let's find these precious words. The poems of A. Shibaev, which you will find in the envelope, will help us with this.

Children work in pairs. Then – a frontal check (collective).

Uncle Sasha is upset

He told me this...

Nastya is a nice girl,

Nastya goes to first grade.

But... it’s been a long time since Nastya

I don't hear the words...(hello).

And what a word -

Very expensive!

I met my neighbor Vitya...

The meeting was sad:

He's like a torpedo on me

Came from around the corner!

But - imagine! - in vain from Vitya

I was waiting for the word...(Sorry).

And what a word -

Very expensive!

He said about his granddaughter:

What a shame -

I gave her a briefcase

I see - I’m very happy!

But you can’t be silent like a fish,

Well I would say...(Thank you).

And what a word -

Very expensive!

A. Shibaev

What do these words have in common?(These are polite words.)

4. Creative work.

Assignment: try to write a poem yourself

Rhyme

porridge

Masha

dinner

No!

5. Comparison of a poem composed by children with a poem by A. Shibaev.

Porridge is ripe in the meadow.

The cow Mashka eats porridge.

Masha likes lunch:

There is nothing tastier!

V. Summing up the lesson.

You learned a lot

Funny words

And more

All sorts of things

And if you

I remembered them

Not in vain

Your day is wasted.

Did we manage to play with words and with words?

Who helped us with this?(A. Shibaev.)

Listen to another poem by A. Shibaev, it will help you complete your homework.

A name is given to everything - both the beast and the object.

There are plenty of things around, but there are no nameless ones.

And all that the eye can see is above us and below us,

And everything that is in our memory is signified by words.

They can be heard here and there, on the street and at home:

One thing has long been familiar to us, the other is unfamiliar.

Words words words…

Language is both old and eternally new!

And it's so beautiful -

In a huge sea - a sea of ​​words

Swim every hour!

Homework:read expressively (pp. 17–19).

Alexander Aleksandrovich Shibaev (1923 - 1979), a native of Volkhov, shared the fate of his generation: he fought on the Leningrad front, was seriously wounded, struggled with illness for many years... And he wrote funny, joyful children's poems. His two “thick” books – “Holding Hands, Friends” (1977) and “Native Language, Be Friends with Me” (1981) – in terms of their meaning and artistic value, will outweigh the numerous reprints of some of the current popular poets. These two books turned out to be “many volumes heavier,” as one great Russian poet of the 19th century said about another. There were also thin books, publications in periodicals, in various collections and anthologies, so Shibaev’s poems reached the recipient, that is, children, and this is the main thing. A man of rare modesty and delicacy, according to the testimony of people who knew him well, the poet did not strive to be in the public eye, he simply did his favorite job very well, without betraying his talent.
But things never came to the point of recognizing Shibaev as a classic, a poet of the first magnitude, which is the greatest injustice and an indicator of the extreme limitations of writing and teaching circles. Understanding people - for example, the poet Mikhail Yasnov, an absolute expert and subtle promoter of real poetry - give Shibaev an honorable place in children's poetry of the last century. Shibaev's originality and skill are obvious, although he worked in the genre of play poetry, where only a person with truly remarkable talent can invent something new. Especially in poetry that “plays” with the native language. For children, Shibaev’s poems are a balm for the soul, because he does not hide the fact that the richness of the Russian language is difficult to master, it’s like finding a treasure, that the language must be felt (and for this you need to be able to feel at all!), but this is not a hopeless matter. His poetry is a rare type of creativity, when an absolutely frivolous, “humorous” matter gives a serious, vital result: the child begins to understand the beauty of his native language, treat it as a living being, love it and take care of it. Every teacher and every schoolchild should adopt poems, tongue twisters, all sorts of confusions and inversions invented by Shibaev, and then the native language will fulfill one of its most important functions - others will begin to understand you. And I will not dwell on the immense pleasure from Shibaev’s poetic and linguistic discoveries, which today’s native speakers define as “high,” leaving the readers to become discoverers and lifelong friends of the poet themselves.
Olga Korf

Alexander Aleksandrovich Shibaev (1923-1979) did not enter, as they recently said, “into the fold”, into the first rank of post-war children's poetry. A Leningrader, not a Muscovite, a modest person, homely, not public, he did not lay claim to the role of a literary star. A dozen and a half books for children published during his lifetime; the final book, as it turned out, “Friends Holding Hands” (1977) and another large book, “Native Language, Be Friends with Me” (1981), which appeared posthumously, which he finished writing in a hospital bed - that, in fact, is all of his literary heritage.
In the second half of the 60s, in the 70s, when our poetry for little ones was often limited to describing children’s life or was led by “drum” optimism, Shibaev turned to the foundations of culture - to language as such, its laws, its wealth. He began to consistently teach children their native, ordinary speech through poetic speech. He poeticized school grammar and found a precise, educational, entertaining approach for each lesson, revealing in poetry both the magic of language and, at the same time, teaching methods. Riddles, tongue twisters, inversions, small plot stories about sounds, letters, words and punctuation marks - Shibaev went further than many in this game: perhaps for the first time such a vast area of ​​​​practical language came into the field of view of a children's poet.

Are you reading?..
- I’m reading.
Not great yet...
- Come on, read this word.
- I’ll read it now.
YOU-E-LY-KY-A.
- And what happened?
- COW!

Who in childhood did not have to quickly repeat a special word and “pick out” from its sounds another word that sounded similar to it? Shibaev brings this game to poetic perfection, pushing the reader to search for such “double” words, revealing their internal connections:

Animal, animal, where are you running?
What's your name, baby?
- I’m running into the reeds-reeds-reeds,
I am mouse-mouse-mouse.

Shibaev especially focused his attention on the euphonic side of language. This is understandable: the comprehension of speech begins with sound; one single sound, one letter often becomes the main difference between words that are completely alien to each other. The poet emphasizes this difference cheerfully and wittily:

The letter "D" at the bottom of the pond
We found crayfish.
Since then they have been in trouble:
Every now and then Fights.

Moving from sound to word, Shibaev here again demonstrates the accuracy of his eye and the acuity of his hearing. Then he forces you to listen to the words themselves, revealing their meaning in their sound:

Talking about hard stone
And the hard word is GRANITE.
And for things that are softest of all,
Words are softer:
FLUFF, MOSS, FUR.

Then, starting from the meaning - through sound - it shows the amazing versatility and unexpectedness of native speech:

I walked across the lawn.
I look - ADMIRAL...
I quietly crept up to him
And - caught it!
Got it!
Finally caught the admiral!..
Rich
Butterfly collection
Became!

Twin words and punctuation marks, syllables and prepositions, reading rules and cultural speech skills - everything becomes the object of attention. And in poems devoted to the more complex laws of language, Shibaev is always looking for a way to stir up a student of his poetic school, force him to answer the question correctly, or even give himself a well-deserved mark:

We are studying transference.
This is how I transferred the words.
“Barely” I suffered “e-two”
And he got two for it.
"Injection" I suffered "u-injection"
And he received a stake for it.
“Again” I suffered “o-five”.
Now, I hope, there will be “five”?!

These lines are good because they play the rhyme expectation game: after reading the word, the reader already guesses what rating the hero deserves, and, laughing, can easily restore the correct spelling when transferred.
Of course, the poems of Alexander Shibaev became a direct development of an already existing tradition. This is the Marshak school and the work of its creator. These are shapeshifters and riddles of Kharms. These are associative connections with contemporaries - Boris Zakhoder, Genrikh Sapgir, Vadim Levin. In this series, Shibaev’s place is significant and original: by making language the main character of the poems, he showed that play - when it exists not for the sake of simple fun, but for the sake of learning and comprehension of culture - is extremely necessary for children's poetry.
“An Entertaining ABC” by A. Shibaev, published today in “Makhaon”, represents the poet’s work in a full-blooded and purposeful manner. Purposeful - because these are, as it says on the cover, real lessons in reading and literacy. And full-blooded, because in addition to a lot of poetic (and prosaic, and - additionally - playful) material, the book presents Alexander Shibaev as a brilliant poet, for whom pedagogy is only a special form of conveying to the reader the entire wealth of his inner poetic world.

Mikhail Yasnov