About the book: 2017 / "Children's Library" - a series of excellent children's books with incredible stories, fairy tales and short stories. The forty-sixth volume includes a fairy tale by children's writer L Lagina “Old Man Hottabych”. The story of how the pioneer Volka Kostylkov freed Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Hottab, that is, Old Man Hottabych, from captivity in a jug and their various adventures..