The book includes fairy tales of different peoples in a poetic retelling of the classic of children's literature, poet, writer and playwright S. Marshak. From the book, the children will find out what treasures were in the chest, what a tough nut is hiding, why the moon doesn't have a dress, and what the rivers were arguing about. There are more than 20 fairy tales in the book.Drawings by Anna Vlasova. There are many fairy tales in the world! Each country has its own.In Denmark, they talk about boastful matches. In Norway— it's about a nut with a secret. In Serbia— it's about the month that was left without a dress. In Russia — about the arguing river sisters… And although all these stories are different, each of them preserves folk wisdom, and in each one, good necessarily wins over evil!The tales that you will find in our book were retold by the classic of children's literature, poet, writer and playwright S. Marshak. And the illustrations were drawn by the modern artist Anna Vlasova.