About the book: 1955 / The Chukotka boy Sarmiko returned from a walrus hunt, and his grandfather told him that he heard on the radio about a plane flying to the winterers, and that there was ice on the bay became really bad. Sarmiko ran on skis to meet the plane. Meanwhile, the pilot had already arrived and brought books, paints, etc. for the local school. The plane was met by a girl, Lena, and her father, a winterer. Lena rode a reindeer across the bay on the ice to take a book to Sarmiko, and then the ice on the bay cracked. The boy managed to ski up to Lena, and a crack separated them from the shore. Sarmiko put Lena on a reindeer and ordered him to take the girl home to her father. The deer delivered, and Lena reported that Sarmiko was carried away on an ice floe into the sea. The winterer radioed, and a plane was sent to search for the boy, the pilot of which found and saved Sarmiko. Having returned, the boy drew everything that happened to him and showed the drawings to the children at school when he told what happened.