About the book: 2017 / "Boys' stories" on behalf of the yard boy Vitka-Sparrow is a book for both preschoolers and school-age children, because it The hero grows from a child into a teenager in the harsh realities of the old Leningrad courtyard. The courtyard with its friendships, concepts of honor and meanness, reconciliations and boyish fights, first love and first injustice is far from ideal, sometimes rude and cruel. But he was copied almost from life by the author of the book, who grew up in the same “boyish” yard and remembered his lessons of good and evil and all these stories.