About the book: 2017 / "Children's Library" - a series of excellent children's books with incredible stories, fairy tales and short stories. The fifty-fourth volume includes the famous story of the American writer M Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" about the young king Edward VI. The events that take place in the book date back to the 16th century. Next to ugliness is beauty, next to cruelty is humanity. But only justice and kindness make a person human. Little ragamuffin Tom Canty would never have thought that there was a boy on earth who looked like him, like a mirror image. By the will of fate, he meets such a boy - the English prince Edward Tudor and by a funny coincidence they change places. How will this promising situation be resolved??..