The importance of books in a person’s life cannot be overestimated. If you want your child to be well-rounded and successful in life, instill in him a love of literature from an early age. Of course, in preschool and primary school age you need to choose light, cheerful works. If you like to read, then you probably remember funny stories for children from the collection “Deniska's Stories” by V. Dragunsky. What other authors of funny stories for children are worthy of the attention of young readers? The answers are in our article today.
As we have already said, the first place among funny stories for children is occupied by the book by V. Dragunsky. His cute and funny stories will appeal to children of both preschool age and young “visitors” of primary school. The main character Deniska Korablev daily finds himself in funny and sometimes ridiculous situations that are sure to make little readers smile. “The Elephant and the Radio”, “Knights”, “Chicken Soup”, “The Battle of a Clean River”, “Exactly 25 Kilos”, “The Dog Thief” and other stories will be interesting, and most importantly, understandable to children from 5 years old. Download a book.
The collection consists of two children's humorous stories, on which famous films of the same name were made. The plot will especially attract primary school students. The main characters of the first part are two mischievous people who will spend the entire summer holidays visiting their strict aunts. Naturally, they don’t expect anything fun from this plan, but big surprises await them... The stories described in the book will definitely appeal to your children, especially boys who dream of the most memorable adventure of their childhood!
Mikhail Zoshchenko is a famous writer, as well as one of the best authors of funny stories for children. His collection is rightly recognized as a classic of children's literature. In his stories, he notices funny moments in such a fascinating and simple language that among the fans of his work there are children even 6 years old! Through light and truthful images, he teaches children to be kind, honest, brave, to strive for knowledge and to act nobly. Children especially hold stories about the heroes Lela and Minka in high esteem.
We also recommend adding to the children’s literature list “Humorous Stories for Children” by A. Averchenko, the famous “Bad Advice” by G. Oster, “The Intercom Thief” by E. Rakitina, “Don’t Lie” by M. Zoshchenko, “Carousel in the Head” by V. Golovkina, “Smart dog Sonya. Stories" by A. Usachev, "Zateika's Stories" by N. Nosov and all the works of E. Uspensky.
- Call Natasha to the phone!
- Natasha is not here, what should I tell her?
- Give her five rubles!
The patient came to the doctor:
- Doctor, you advised me to count to 100,000 to fall asleep!
- Well, did you fall asleep?
- No, it’s already morning! Sent by Yana Sukhoverkhova from Estonia, Pärnu May 18, 2003
- Vasya! Doesn't it bother you that you're left-handed?
- No. Every person has their own shortcomings. For example, with what hand do you stir the tea?
- Right!
- Here you see! But normal people stir with a spoon!
A crazy person is walking down the street and dragging a thread behind him.
A passerby asks him:
- Why are you dragging a thread behind you?
What should I push forward?
- My neighbor was a vampire.
- How did you know this?
“And I drove an aspen stake into his chest, and he died.”
- Boy, why are you crying so bitterly?
- Because of rheumatism.
- What? So small and you already have rheumatism?
- No, I got a bad mark because I wrote “rhythmism” in the dictation!
- Sidorov! My patience has run out! Don't come to school tomorrow without your father!
- And the day after tomorrow?
- Petya, why are you laughing? Personally, I don’t see anything funny!
- And you can’t even see: you sat on my jam sandwich!
— Petya, how many excellent students are there in your class?
- Not counting me, four.
- Are you an excellent student?
- No. That's what I said - not counting me!
Phone call in the staff room:
- Hello! Is this Anna Alekseevna? Tolik's mother says.
- Who? I can't hear well!
- Tolika! I spell it out: Tatyana, Oleg, Leonid, Ivan, Kirill, Andrey!
- What? And all the children are in my class?
During a drawing lesson, one student turns to his neighbor at his desk:
- You drew great! I've got an appetite!
- Appetite? From sunrise?
- Wow! And I thought you drew scrambled eggs!
During a singing lesson, the teacher said:
— Today we’ll talk about opera. Who knows what opera is?
Vovochka raised his hand:
- I know. This is when one person kills another in a duel, and the other sings for a long time before falling!
The teacher handed out notebooks after checking the dictation.
Vovochka approaches the teacher with her notebook and asks:
- Maria Ivanovna, I didn’t understand what you wrote below!
— I wrote: “Sidorov, write legibly!”
The teacher talked in class about great inventors. Then she asked the students:
-What would you like to invent?
One student said:
— I would invent such a machine: you press a button and all the lessons are ready!
- What a lazy person! - the teacher laughed.
Then Vovochka raised his hand and said:
“And I would come up with a device that would press this button!”
Vovochka answers in zoology class:
- The length of the crocodile from head to tail is 5 meters, and from tail to head - 7 meters...
“Think about what you’re saying,” the teacher interrupts Vovochka. - Is it possible?
“It happens,” Vovochka answers. - For example, from Monday to Wednesday - two days, and from Wednesday to Monday - five!
— Vovochka, what do you want to become when you grow up?
- An ornithologist.
- Is this the one who studies birds?
- Yeah. I want to cross a pigeon with a parrot.
- For what?
- What if suddenly the pigeon gets lost, so that it can ask the way home!
The teacher asks Vovochka:
—What are the last teeth a person develops?
“Artificial,” answered Vovochka.
Vovochka stops the car on the street:
- Uncle, take me to school!
- I'm going in the opposite direction.
- All the better!
“Dad,” says Vovochka, “I must tell you that tomorrow there will be a small meeting of students, parents and teachers at school.”
— What does “small” mean?
- It's just you, me and the homeroom teacher.
We wrote a dictation. When Alla Grigorievna was checking the notebooks, she turned to Antonov:
- Kolya, why are you so inattentive? I dictated: “The door creaked and opened.” What did you write? "The door creaked and fell off!"
And everyone laughed!
“Vorobiev,” said the teacher, “you didn’t do your homework again!” Why?
— Igor Ivanovich, we had no light yesterday.
- And what were you doing? Perhaps you watched TV?
- Yeah, in the dark...
And everyone laughed!
A young teacher complains to her friend:
“One of my students completely tormented me: he makes noise, misbehaves, disrupts lessons!
- But does he have at least one positive quality?
- Unfortunately, there is - he doesn’t miss classes...
In our German lesson we covered the topic “My Hobby”. The teacher called Petya Grigoriev. He stood and was silent for a long time.
“I don’t hear the answer,” said Elena Alekseevna. — What is your hobby?
Then Petya said in German:
- Their bin briefmarke! (I am a postage stamp!)
And everyone laughed!
The lesson has begun. The teacher asked:
— Duty officer, who is absent from class?
Pimenov looked around and said:
— Mushkin is absent.
At this time, Mushkin’s head appeared in the doorway:
- I'm not absent, I'm here!
And everyone laughed!
It was a geometry lesson.
- Who solved the problem? - asked Igor Petrovich.
Vasya Rybin was the first to raise his hand.
“Great, Rybin,” the teacher praised, “Please, come to the board!”
Vasya came to the board and said importantly:
— Consider triangle ABCD!
And everyone laughed!
Why weren't you at school yesterday?
— My older brother got sick.
- What does that have to do with you?
- And I rode his bike!
— Petrov, why are you learning English so poorly?
- What for?
- What do you mean why? After all, half the globe speaks this language!
- And isn’t this enough?
- Petya, if you met old man Hottabych, what wish would you ask him to fulfill?
— I would ask to make London the capital of France.
- Why?
- And yesterday I answered geography and got a bad mark!..
- Well done, Mitya. - says dad. — How did you manage to get an A in zoology?
- They asked me how many legs an ostrich has and I answered - three.
- Wait, but an ostrich has two legs!
- Yes, but all the others answered that there were four!
Petya was invited to visit. They tell him:
- Petya, take another piece of cake.
- Thank you, I have already eaten two pieces.
- Then eat a tangerine.
- Thank you, I have already eaten three tangerines.
“Then take some fruit with you.”
- Thank you, I already took it!
Cheburashka found a penny on the road. He comes to a store where they sell toys. He gives a penny to the saleswoman and says:
- Give me this toy, this one and this one!..
The saleswoman looks at him in surprise.
- Well, what are you waiting for? - says Cheburashka. - Give me the change and I'll go!
Vovochka and her dad are standing near a cage where a lion sits at the zoo.
“Dad,” says Vovochka, “and if a lion accidentally jumps out of the cage and eats you, which bus should I take home?”
“Dad,” asks Vovochka, “why don’t you have a car?”
— There is no money for a car. Don’t be lazy, study better, become a good specialist and buy yourself a car.
- Dad, why were you lazy at school?
“Petya,” asks dad, “why are you limping?”
“I put my foot in the mousetrap and it pinched me.”
- Don't stick your nose where it shouldn't!
- Grandfather, what are you doing with this bottle? Do you want to install a boat in it?
“That’s exactly what I wanted at first.” Now I would be glad to just take my hand out of the bottle!
“Dad,” the daughter turns to her father, “our phone works badly!”
- Why did you decide that?
— Now I was talking to my friend and didn’t understand anything.
—Have you tried talking in turns?
“Mom,” Vovochka asked, “how much toothpaste is in the tube?”
- Don't know.
- And I know: from the sofa to the door!
- Dad, get on the phone! - Petya shouted to his father, who was shaving in front of the mirror.
When dad finished the conversation, Petya asked him:
- Dad, are you good at remembering faces?
- I think I remember. And what?
- The fact is that I accidentally broke your mirror...
— Dad, what is “telefiguration”?
- Don't know. Where did you read this?
- I didn’t read it, I wrote it!
- Natasha, why are you writing a letter to your grandmother so slowly?
- It’s okay: grandma reads slowly too!
- Anya, what have you done! You broke a vase that was two hundred years old!
- What happiness, mom! I thought it was completely new!
- Mom, what is etiquette?
- This is the ability to yawn with your mouth closed...
The art teacher says to Vovochka’s father:
— Your son has exceptional abilities. Yesterday he drew a fly on his desk, and I even knocked my hand away trying to get it away!
- What else is that! Recently he painted a crocodile in the bathroom, and I got so scared that I tried to jump out through the door, which was also painted on the wall.
Little Johnny says to his father:
- Dad, I decided to give you a gift for your birthday!
“The best gift for me,” said dad, “is if you study with straight A’s.”
- It's too late, dad, I already bought you a tie!
A little boy watches his dad at work as he paints the ceiling.
Mom says:
- Watch, Petya, and learn. And when you grow up, you will help your dad.
Petya is surprised:
- What, he won’t finish by then?
The hostess, hiring a new maid, asked her:
- Tell me, my dear, do you like parrots?
- Oh, don't worry, madam, I eat everything!
An auction is taking place in a pet store - talking parrots are on sale. One of the buyers who purchased a parrot asks the seller:
- Does he really speak well?
- Still would! After all, he was the one who kept increasing the price!
- Petya, what will you do if hooligans attack you?
- I’m not afraid of them - I know judo, karate, aikedo and other scary words!
- Hello! Animal defence community? There is a postman sitting on a tree in my yard and calling my poor dog all sorts of bad names!
Three bears return to their hut.
- Who touched my plate and ate my porridge?! - Papa Bear growled.
- Who touched my saucer and ate my porridge?! - the bear cub squeaked.
“Calm down,” said mother bear. - There was no porridge: I didn’t cook it today!
One man caught a cold and decided to treat himself with self-hypnosis. He stood in front of the mirror and began to inspire himself:
- I won’t sneeze, I won’t sneeze, I won’t sneeze... A-a-pchhi!!! This is not me, this is not me, this is not me...
- Mom, why does dad have so little hair on his head?
- The fact is that our dad thinks a lot.
“Then why do you have such voluminous hair?”
- Dad, today the teacher told us about an insect that lives only one day. That's great!
— Why “great”?
- Imagine, you can celebrate your birthday all your life!
One fisherman, a teacher by profession, caught a small catfish, admired it, and, throwing it back into the river, said:
- Go home and come back with your parents tomorrow!
A husband and wife came by car to visit. Leaving the car at the house, they tied the dog nearby and told it to guard the car. When they got ready to return home in the evening, they saw that all the wheels of the car had been removed. And there was a note attached to the car: “Don’t scold the dog, she was barking!”
One Englishman walked into a bar with a dog and told the visitors:
— I bet my talking dog will now read Hamlet’s monologue “To be or not to be!”
Alas, he immediately lost the bet. Because the dog didn't say a single word.
Coming out of the bar, the owner began shouting at the dog:
-Are you completely stupid?! I lost a thousand pounds because of you!
“You’re stupid,” the dog objected. - Don’t you understand that tomorrow in the same bar we can win ten times more!
- Your dog is strange - she sleeps all day long. How can she guard the house?
“It’s very simple: when someone stranger approaches the house, we wake her up and she starts barking.
The wolf is going to eat the hare. Hare says:
- Let's agree. I'll tell you three riddles. If you don't guess them, you'll let me go.
- Agree.
— A pair of black ones, shiny, with laces.
The wolf is silent.
- This is a pair of boots. Now the second riddle: four black, shiny ones, with laces.
The wolf is silent.
— Two pairs of shoes. The third riddle is the most difficult: it lives in a swamp, it is green, it croaks, it starts with “la” and ends with “gushka”.
The wolf shouts joyfully:
— Three pairs of shoes!!!
Bats hang on the ceiling. All, as expected, heads down, and one - head up. The mice hanging nearby chatter:
- Why is she hanging upside down?
- And she does yoga!
The crow found a large piece of cheese. Then a fox suddenly jumped out from behind the bushes and slapped the crow on the head. The cheese fell out, the fox immediately grabbed it and ran away.
The stunned crow says with offense:
- Wow, they shortened the fable!
The zoo director, out of breath, comes running to the police station:
- For God's sake, help, our elephant has run away!
“Calm down, citizen,” said the policeman. - We will find your elephant. Name the special signs!
An owl flies and shouts:
- Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh!..
Suddenly he hit a pole:
- Wow!
A Japanese schoolboy enters a company store selling watches.
— Do you have a reliable alarm clock?
“It couldn’t be more reliable,” the seller answers. “First the siren goes on, then an artillery salvo is heard, and a glass of cold water is poured on your face. If that doesn't work, the alarm clock rings the school and tells you that you have the flu!
Guide: - in front of you is a rare exhibit of our museum - a beautiful statue of a Greek warrior. Unfortunately, he is missing an arm and a leg, and his head is damaged in some places. The work is called "Winner".
Visitor: - Great! I'd like to see what's left of the vanquished one!
A foreign tourist arriving in Paris turns to a Frenchman:
“I come here for the fifth time, and I see that nothing has changed!”
- What should change? - he asks.
Tourist (points to the Eiffel Tower):
— In the end, did they find oil here or not?
One society lady asked Heine:
— What do you need to do to learn to speak French?
“It’s not difficult,” he answered, “you just need to use French instead of German words.”
In a history lesson in a French school:
—Who was the father of Louis the Sixteenth?
— Louis the Fifteenth.
- Fine. And Charles the Seventh?
— Charles the Sixth.
- And Francis the First? Well, what are you silent?
- Francis... Zero!
During a history lesson, the teacher said:
— Today we will repeat the old material. Natasha, ask Semenov a question.
Natasha thought and asked:
- What year was the war of 1812?
And everyone laughed.
The parents had no time, and grandfather went to the parent meeting. He arrived in a bad mood and immediately began to scold his grandson:
- Disgrace! It turns out that your history is full of bad marks! For example, I always got straight A's in this subject!
“Of course,” the grandson answered, “at the time when you were studying, history was much shorter!”
Baba Yaga asks Koshchei the Immortal:
— How did you relax during the New Year holidays?
“I shot myself a couple of times, drowned myself three times, hanged myself once—in general, I had fun!”
Winnie the Pooh congratulated the donkey on his birthday, and then said:
- Eeyore, you must be many years old?
- Why do you say that?
- Judging by your ears, you've been pulled on them often!
A client enters a photo studio and asks the receptionist:
— I wonder why everyone is laughing in your photographs?
- You should have seen our photographer!
-What are you complaining about? - the doctor asks the patient.
- You know, by the end of the day I just fall from fatigue.
- What do you do in the evenings?
— I play the violin.
— I recommend stopping music lessons immediately!
When the patient left, the nurse asked the doctor in surprise:
- Ivan Petrovich, what does music lessons have to do with it?
- Absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s just that this woman lives on the floor above me, and our soundproofing is disgusting!
“Yesterday I pulled a pike weighing twenty kilograms out of an ice hole!”
- Can't be!
- That's right, I thought that no one would believe me, so I let her out back...
The summer resident addresses the owner of the dacha:
— Could you please lower the rent for the room a little?
- What are you talking about? With such a beautiful view of the birch grove!
- What if I promise you that I won’t look out the window?
The millionaire shows his guest his villa and says:
“And here I’m going to build three pools: one with cold water, the second with warm water, and the third without water at all.”
- Without water? - the guest is surprised. - For what?
— The fact is that some of my friends don’t know how to swim...
At a painting exhibition, one visitor asks another:
— Do you think this picture depicts a sunrise or sunset?
- Of course, sunset.
- Why do you think so?
— I know this artist. He doesn't wake up before noon.
Buyer: - I would like to buy some book.
Seller: - Would you like something light?
Buyer: - It doesn’t matter, I’m driving!
An unknown young man set a world record in the 100-meter race. A journalist interviews him:
- How did you do it? Have you trained a lot in any sports club?
- No, at the shooting range. I work there replacing targets...
“I recently ran two kilometers in one minute at a school competition!”
- You're lying! This is better than a world record!
- Yes, but I know a shortcut!
Nikolai Nosov, a writer of outstanding humorous talent, believed that children begin to understand jokes very early, before the age of two, and that it is the violation of the order of things that they have just learned that makes them laugh. In general, Nosov’s books, as a rule, have two addresses - the child and the teacher. Nosov helps the teacher understand the motives and motivations of the child’s actions, and therefore find more subtle ways of influencing him. He brings up a child with laughter, and this, as we know, is a better educator than any edification.
In Nosov's humorous stories for primary schoolchildren and preschool children, the funny is not in the circumstances, but in the characters, the comedy of which stems from the peculiarities of boyish nature. Nosov's funny books talk about serious things, and children, perceiving the life experiences of the heroes, learn how difficult, but how good it is to be responsible for the assigned task.
Stories for children of preschool and primary school age, action-packed, dynamic, full of unexpected comic situations. The stories are full of lyricism and humor; The narration is usually told in the first person.
Humorous situations help Nosov show the logic of the hero’s thinking and behavior. “The real reason for the funny lies not in external circumstances, but is rooted in the people themselves, in human characters,” wrote Nosov.
The writer's insight into the psychology of a child is artistically authentic. His works reflect the characteristics of children's perception. Laconic, expressive dialogue and a comic situation help the author to describe the characters of the children.
Nosov in his stories knows how to talk to children, knows how to understand the most intimate thoughts. Reading Nosov’s stories, you see real guys in front of you - exactly the same ones we meet in everyday life, with their strengths and weaknesses, thoughtfulness and naivety. The writer boldly resorts to fantasy and mischievous invention in his work. Each of his stories or tales is based on an incident that happened or could happen in life; the characters of the guys we often meet in the surrounding reality are described.
The strength of his stories and tales lies in the truthful, ingenuous display of a unique and cheerful children's character.
All of Nikolai Nosov’s work is permeated with genuine, intelligent love for children. Whichever of Nosov’s stories we start reading, we immediately experience joy from the first page. And the more we read, the more fun it becomes.
In funny stories there is always something hidden that makes you think seriously. Think about how it is necessary to prepare yourself for independent life from an early age: learn to cook porridge, fry minnows in a frying pan, plant seedlings in the garden and repair the telephone, light sparklers and follow traffic rules. Everyone needs to know and be able to do this. These stories help to get rid of bad character traits - absent-mindedness, cowardice, excessive curiosity, rudeness and arrogance, laziness and indifference.
The writer teaches little children to think not only about themselves, but also about their comrades. Together with the heroes, we experience spiritual relief and great satisfaction. The writer is generally opposed to flaunting the moralizing idea of his work, and strives to write in such a way that the little reader himself can draw a conclusion. Possessing a deep understanding of children, the writer never presents a fact in its pure form, without speculation, without creative imagination. N.N. Nosov is an amazing children's writer. It is surprising and remarkable in that not only children receive a charge of extraordinary cheerfulness, vigor, and a surge of strength, but also adults immediately plunge into the atmosphere of childhood, remembering their “difficult” childhood problems.
The literary word always more emotionally expresses the everyday problems faced by teachers, parents and children. It is much more effective than boring moralizing, instructions, explanations. And a lively discussion of Nosov’s stories is not only a fascinating journey together with the heroes of his books through the country of childhood, it is also the accumulation of life experience, moral concepts, what is “good”, what is “bad”, how to do the right thing, how to learn to be strong, brave.
Reading Nosov’s stories to children, you can have fun, laugh heartily, and draw important conclusions for yourself, and don’t forget that next to you are the same girls and boys, for whom not everything always works out smoothly and well, that you can learn everything, you need to just keep your cool and be able to be friends.
This is the moral and aesthetic side. The social position of the children's writer, his worldview is reflected in his work. The internal organization of a work addressed to children reflects the worldview of the author himself, his social, moral and aesthetic orientation in the world.
The story “The Living Hat” will always remain relevant. This funny story was a favorite of many in childhood. Why is it so well remembered by children? Yes, because “childhood fears” haunt a child throughout his entire childhood: “What if this coat is alive and will grab me now?”, “What if the closet will now open and someone scary will come out of it?”
These or other similar “horrors” often visit young children. And Nosov’s story “The Living Hat” is like a guide for kids on how to overcome their fear. After reading this story, the child remembers it every time he is haunted by “invented” fears, and then he smiles, the fear goes away, he is brave and cheerful.
The power of life affirmation is a common feature of children's literature. The very life-affirmation of childhood is optimistic. A small child is sure that the world he has come into is created for happiness, that this is a correct and lasting world. This feeling is the basis for the child’s moral health and future ability to do creative work.
A story about honesty - “Cucumbers” by N. Nosov. How many worries Kotka got for the collective farm cucumbers! Not understanding what he did wrong, he rejoices, carrying cucumbers from the collective farm field home to his mother, not expecting her angry reaction: “Bring them back now!” And he is afraid of the watchman - they just managed to run away and be glad that he didn’t catch up - and then he has to go and voluntarily “surrender”. And it’s already late - it’s dark and scary outside. But when Kotka returned the cucumbers to the watchman, his soul was happy, and the road home was now pleasant for him, not scary. Or has he become bolder, more confident?
There are no “bad” people in Nosov’s stories. He constructs his works in such a way that children do not notice that they are taught polite, respectful attitude towards adults, taught to live in harmony and peace.
On the pages of Nosov's works there is a lively dialogue that conveys to everything that happens the hero - the boy, in his own way, often very directly illuminating certain artistically authentic events. This penetration into the psychology of the hero, who evaluates everything from his own, boyish point of view, creates not only a comical situation in Nosov’s stories, but also humorously colors the logic of the hero’s behavior, which sometimes contradicts the logic of adults or the logic of common sense.
If you remember the heroes of the story “Mishkina Porridge”, “Don’t worry! I saw my mother cooking. You will be full, you will not die of hunger. I’ll cook such porridge that you’ll lick your fingers!” You’re simply amazed at their independence and skill! We lit the stove. The bear poured cereal into the pan. I speak:
The rash is bigger. I really want to eat!
He filled the pan full and filled it to the top with water.
Isn't there a lot of water? - I ask. - It will be a mess.
It's okay, mom always does this. Just watch the stove, and I’ll cook, be calm.
Well, I look after the stove, add firewood, and Mishka cooks the porridge, that is, he doesn’t cook, but sits and looks at the pan, it cooks itself.
Well, they couldn’t cook the porridge, but they lit the stove and put up some firewood. They get water from the well - they drowned the bucket, true, but they still got it out with a mug or a saucepan. “Nonsense! I will bring it now. He took the matches, tied a rope to the bucket and went to the well. He returns a minute later.
Where is the water? - I ask.
Water... there, in the well.
I myself know what’s in the well. Where's the bucket of water?
And the bucket, he says, is in the well.
How - in a well?
Yes, in the well.
Missed it?
Missed it."
The minnows were cleaned and, look, they would have been fried if the oil had not burned. “We are weirdos! - says Mishka. - We have minnows!
I speak:
There is no time to bother with minnows anymore! It will begin to get light soon.
So we won’t cook them, but fry them. It's quick - once and done.
Well, go ahead, I say, if it’s quick. And if it turns out like porridge, then it’s better not to.
In a moment, you’ll see.”
And most importantly, they found the right solution - they asked a neighbor to cook the porridge, and for this they weeded her garden. “Mishka said:
Weeds are nonsense! Not at all difficult. Much easier than cooking porridge!” Likewise, vigorous energy and imagination, combined with an overestimation of their capabilities and a lack of life experience, often put children in a funny position, which is further aggravated by the fact that failure does not discourage them, but, on the contrary, is usually a source of new fantasies and unexpected actions.
Nikolai Nikolaevich hid so skillfully behind the little heroes that it seemed as if they themselves, without any participation from the author, were talking about their lives, about sorrows, joys, problems and dreams. At the center of N. Nosov’s works are visionary guys, restless, irrepressible inventors who often get punished for their ideas. The most ordinary life situations are transformed in Nosov's stories into unusually funny instructive stories.
Nosov's stories always include an educational element. There is it in the story about cucumbers stolen from the collective farm garden, and about how Fedya Rybkin “forgot how to laugh in class” (“The Blob”), and about the bad habit of learning lessons by turning on the radio (“Fedya’s task”). But even the most “moralistic stories” of the writer are interesting and close to children, because they help them understand the relationships between people.
The heroes of Nosov’s work actively strive to understand their surroundings: either they searched the entire yard, crawled through all the sheds and attics (“Shurik at Grandfather’s”), or they worked all day long - “building a snow hill” (“On the Hill”).
Nosov's boys carry all the traits of a person: his integrity, excitement, spirituality, eternal desire, the habit of inventing, which in fact corresponds to the images of real guys.
N. Nosov's creativity is diverse and versatile. Laughter is the main engine of his creativity. Unlike the overwhelming majority of comedians, Nosov has also established himself as a theorist of the funny.
For N. Nosov, discovering and explaining the world to children is one of the most important artistic tasks.
We can talk for a long time about Nosov the humorist, Nosov the satirist: almost every line he wrote has to do with laughter.
Nosov's books are readily translated almost all over the world. Back in 1955, the UNESCO Courier magazine published data according to which Nosov was third among the most translated Russian writers in the world - right after Gorky and Pushkin! In this sense, he is ahead of all children's writers.
The continuation of the traditions of Nosov’s humorous stories can be seen in the works of such writers as V. Dragunsky, V. Medvedev and other modern writers.
This section of our website contains stories from our favorite Russian writers for children aged 7-10 years. Many of them are included in the main school curriculum and the extracurricular reading program for 2nd and 3rd grade. However, these stories are not worth reading for the sake of a line in the reader's diary. Being classics of Russian literature, the stories of Tolstoy, Bianchi and other authors have educational and educational functions. In these short works, the reader encounters good and evil, friendship and betrayal, honesty and deception. Younger schoolchildren learn about the life and way of life of previous generations.
The stories of the classics not only teach and edify, but also entertain. The funny stories of Zoshchenko, Dragunsky, Oster are familiar to every person since childhood. Plots understandable to children and light humor made the stories the most read works among primary schoolchildren.
Read interesting stories by Russian writers online on our website!
The section is under development and will soon be filled with interesting works with illustrations.
Alyosha’s parents usually returned home late after work. He came home from school on his own, warmed up his lunch, did his homework, played and waited for mom and dad. Alyosha went to a music school twice a week; it was very close to the school. From early childhood, the boy was accustomed to his parents working a lot, but he never complained, he understood that they were trying for him.
Nadya has always been an example for her younger brother. An excellent student at school, she still managed to study at music school and help her mother at home. She had many friends in her class, they visited each other and sometimes even did homework together. But for class teacher Natalya Petrovna, Nadya was the best: she always managed to do everything, but also helped others. There was only talk both at school and at home about how “Nadya is a smart girl, what a helper, what a smart girl Nadya is.” Nadya was pleased to hear such words, because it was not in vain that people praised her.
Little Zhenya was a very greedy boy; he used to bring candy to kindergarten and not share it with anyone. And to all the comments from Zhenya’s teacher, Zhenya’s parents responded like this: “Zhenya is still too small to share with anyone, so let him grow up a little, then he will understand.”
Petya was the most pugnacious boy in the class. He constantly pulled the girls' pigtails and tripped the boys. It wasn't that he liked it very much, but he believed that it made him stronger than the other guys, and this was undoubtedly nice to know. But there was also a downside to this behavior: no one wanted to be friends with him. Petya’s desk neighbor, Kolya, got it especially hard. He was an excellent student, but he never allowed Petya to copy from him and did not give any hints on tests, so Petya was offended by him for this.
Spring has come. In the city, the snow turned gray and began to settle, and merry drops could be heard from the rooftops. There was a forest outside the city. Winter still reigned there, and the sun's rays barely made their way through the thick spruce branches. But then one day something moved under the snow. A stream appeared. He gurgled cheerfully, trying to make his way through the blocks of snow up to the sun.
The bus was stuffy and very crowded. He was squeezed from all sides, and he already regretted a hundred times that he decided to go to the next doctor’s appointment early in the morning. He drove and thought that quite recently, it would seem, but in fact seventy years ago, he rode the bus to school. And then the war began. He didn’t like to remember what he experienced there, why bring up the past. But every year on June twenty-second he locked himself in his apartment, did not answer calls and did not go anywhere. He remembered those who volunteered with him to the front and did not return. The war was also a personal tragedy for him: during the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad, his father and older brother died.
Even though it was only mid-March, the snow had almost melted. Streams ran through the streets of the village, in which paper boats sailed merrily, overtaking each other. They were launched by local boys returning home after school.
Katya always dreamed about something: how she would become a famous doctor, how she would fly to the moon, or how she would invent something useful for all humanity. Katya also loved animals very much. At home she had a dog, Laika, a cat, Marusya, and two parrots, which were given to her by her parents for her birthday, as well as fish and a turtle.
Mom came home from work a little early today. As soon as she closed the front door, Marina immediately threw herself on her neck:
- Mom, mommy! I almost got run over by a car!
- What are you talking about! Well, turn around, I'll look at you! How did this happen?
It was spring. The sun was shining very brightly, the snow had almost melted. And Misha was really looking forward to summer. In June he turned twelve years old, and his parents promised to give him a new bicycle for his birthday, which he had long dreamed of. He already had one, but Misha, as he himself liked to say, “grew out of it a long time ago.” He did well in school, and his mom and dad, and sometimes his grandparents, would give him money as praise for his excellent behavior or good grades. Misha did not spend this money, he saved it. He had a big piggy bank where he put all the money that was given to him. Since the beginning of the school year, he had accumulated a significant amount, and the boy wanted to offer his parents this money so that they could buy him a bicycle before his birthday, he really wanted to ride.