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Malenkii vimmelbuh, priglashenie proguliatsia po gorodu Zverinogradu v viehodnoi. Ego obitateli – jivotniee, no oni zaniatie tem je, chem i jiteli lubogo drugogo goroda. Oni hodiat na rienok, v kafe, v bassein i na katok, otkrievaut viestavki i ustraivaut premerie filmov. I, konechno je, prazdnuut dni rojdeniia. Kniga otkrievaetsia razvorotom s planom goroda, i dlia malenkogo chitatelia eto perviei opiet abstraktnogo predstavlenii o deistvitelnosti. A potom, slovno navedia zum, chitatel rassmatrivaet otdelniee lokacii. Na kajdom razvorote poiavliautsia noviee personaji, oni vstupaut vo vzaimodeistvie drug s drugom, a v konce sobirautsia na den rojdeniia. Mojno prosledit, chem kajdiei iz nih zanimalsia v etot den, a potom naiti ego v prazdnichnoi tolpe na poslednem razvorote.

Little Wimmelbuch, an invitation to walk around the city of Zveringrad on a weekend. Its inhabitants are animals, but they do the same thing as the inhabitants of any other city. They go to the market, to cafes, to the pool and to the ice rink, open exhibitions and arrange film premieres. And, of course, they celebrate birthdays. The book opens with a spread with a city plan, and for a young reader this is the first experience of an abstract representation of reality. And then, as if zooming in, the reader examines individual locations. New characters appear on each page, they interact with each other, and at the end they gather for a birthday party. You can track what each of them was doing that day, and then find him in the festive crowd on the last page.