About the book: 1963 / A fairy tale is a fairy tale. Every fairy tale must have good fairies and evil wizards. They also act in V. Kaverin’s fairy tales. And yet these are very special fairy tales, because their main characters - Tanya, Petka, Nastenka, Mitya and Masha - are ordinary Soviet children. To do good and defeat evil, you often don’t need to fight fairy-tale monsters at all. To do this, you just need to get rid of your own shortcomings. And the shortcomings of the heroes of V. Kaverin’s fairy tales are ordinary, like those of all children. Petka is cowardly and absent-minded, Mitya is boastful and not always polite, and the girl Tanya is talkative and looks in the mirror too often - it’s a rare girl who does not have these shortcomings! What doesn't happen in fairy tales! Little heroes have to go through many dangerous and funny adventures. Mitya even goes to the brown Koshcheev country to save his sister. But the main action of V. Kaverin’s fairy tales takes place in our days, in our country, in Moscow or Leningrad. Of course, adults help children. Doctor-Pharmacist, Scientist Gardener, Cheerful Chimney Sweep, Master Golden Hands, Baker, Uncle Kostya - these are good Soviet people, otherwise they, no doubt, would not be so worried about the fact that the Snow Maiden should melt in the spring, and Tanya Zabotkina will not get there on time a magic cure for her seriously ill father. “Three Tales and One More” by V. Kaverin is a kind, smart book. Both adults and children will read it with a smile..