About the book: 1961 / Dear readers! The author of this book, Perm writer Vladimir Ivanovich Vorobyov, did not immediately become a writer. Before this, he had the opportunity to try many professions and meet a variety of people. He was a garage and construction worker, a laboratory assistant in a bacteriological laboratory, a mechanic, a radio operator, a cultural worker, and a school teacher. Vladimir Ivanovich writes for both adults and children. “It’s hard” stories about pioneers and schoolchildren. Here you will read about school “fakirs”, how a silent map “speaked”, how the children of one pioneer unit took patronage over kids from kindergarten, about boys who dream of becoming sailors and are preparing themselves for long voyages.