Reading stories about nature and animals by Yuri Koval is exciting, like watching a poetic cartoon. No wonder the author was not only a writer, but also a screenwriter. And many of his works appeared on the screens. They are both in the school curriculum and in the extracurricular reading lists. The collection includes his most popular novels and short stories.: "Captain Klyukvin", "Rabbit Trails", "Gray Night", "Spring Evening", "White Tooth" and others. And Olga Tsurina's detailed, accurate and colorful illustrations turn the book into a mini-encyclopedia of native nature.