About the book: 2018 / “Children should be smarter than their parents,” mother repeated. But I can’t be smarter! So the troika got into the quarters, in Russian. Spoils the column of fours and fives! It’s unfair: I write well, I once wrote a whole book about a nimble monkey. And then another story about how I lost my backpack. And about the terrible, disgusting birthday of Liza Komarova. And more, more... Okay, first things first! My name is Dima Vasilkin, I study in the third “A” and constantly find myself in funny stories. Not all of them, however, immediately seem funny - like, for example, when Kostya and I were stuck at his house until the night. But I still love such cases - it’s a pleasure to tell them later! And the only thing I don’t like is this: “Vasilkin will go to the board!” - words that our teacher Svetlana Alekseevna says every day. For what? Without this “to the board” I really don’t have enough adventures! Judge for yourself! Dima Vasilkin actually has a lot of adventures: either he and a friend come up with the funniest prank for the first of April, then he decides to learn to play the guitar for the New Year at all costs, or he experiences from his own experience what the expression “ “ a mountain off my shoulders." He writes down all these cases in detail in a notebook, and they all give him some kind of lesson - one of those that you would never get during “real” lessons. Victoria Lederman’s new book is a collection of instructive and funny stories from the life of a third grader, which are built into a single “novel in stories”, gradually revealing the hero to the reader. However, the reader of this hero knows well: Vasilkin is so similar to any nine-year-old schoolboy! Victoria Lederman writes easily and captivatingly. The writer manages to create a truthful and memorable image - as she managed in past books that became real hits (“Ma(y)ya’s Calendar”, “Freshman”, “Only eleven! or Shura-murs in the fifth “D””, “No lessons will!»).