Christmas stories and fairy tales for children. Methodological development on the topic: Stories about the New Year for children

Very soon it will start to snow, winter will be covered with snow, cold winds will blow and frosts will strike. We will watch the pranks of winter from the windows of the houses, and on fine days we will arrange winter photo shoots, go sledding, make snowmen and arrange snow fights. And here are the long winter evenings as if they were intended for joint reading of winter tales filled with adventure, miracles and magic. We have prepared a list of just such fairy tales to make reading really interesting and exciting.

Do you want to play with your child easily and with pleasure?

List of winter stories for children

1. V. Vitkovich, G. Jagdfeld "A fairy tale in broad daylight" (labyrinth). The adventures of the boy Mitya, who met the unusual snow girl Lelya and now protects her from the evil Snowmen and the Old Year.
2. M. Staroste "Winter's Tale" (labyrinth). The Snow Maiden baked a gingerbread man - Khrustik. But the inquisitive Khrustik did not want to lie in a basket with other gifts, got out ... and decided to go to the guys under the Christmas tree ahead of time. On this path, many dangerous adventures awaited him, in which he almost disappeared. But Santa Claus saved the hero, and he, in turn, promised not to go anywhere without asking.
3. N. Pavlova "Winter Tales" "Winter Feast" (labyrinth). The hare fed a squirrel with a broken paw all summer long, and when the time came to return kindness for kindness, the squirrel felt sorry for its supplies. What tasks she did not invent in order to ward off the hare, but in the end her conscience tortured her and they made a real winter feast. A dynamic and understandable story for a child, illustrations by N. Charushin will be a good reason to discuss generosity and mutual assistance with the baby.
4. P. Bazhov "Silver Hoof" (labyrinth). A kind tale about the orphan Darenka and Kokovan, who told the girl about an unusual goat with a silver hoof. And one day the fairy tale became a reality, a goat ran to the booth, beats with a hoof, and from under it gems are pouring in.
5. Y. Yakovlev "Umka" (labyrinth). The story of a little white bear cub who discovers huge world in all its diversity, about his mother - a polar bear and their adventures.
6. S. Nurdqvist "Christmas in Petson's house" (labyrinth). Petson and his kitten Findus had big plans for this Christmas. But Petson twisted his leg and can't even go to the store and pick up the Christmas tree. But is this an obstacle when there is ingenuity and friendly neighbors?
7. N. Nosov "On the hill" (labyrinth). A story about a cunning, but not very far-sighted boy, Kotka Chizhov, who spoiled the hill that the guys had been building all day, sprinkling it with snow.
8. Odus Hilary "The Snowman and the Snow Dog" (labyrinth, Ozone). A story about a boy who recently lost his dog. And, having found “clothes” for a snowman, he decided to make both a snowman and a dog. Snow sculptures came to life and a lot was waiting for them amazing adventures together. But spring came, the snowman melted, and the dog ... became real!
   
9. Tove Jansson "Magic Winter" (labyrinth). One winter, Moomintroll woke up and realized that he no longer wanted to sleep, which means that the real time for adventure had come. And there will be more than enough of them in this book, because this is the first Moomintroll who did not sleep all year.
10. U. Maslo "Christmas at the Godmother" (labyrinth). Kind and magical tales about the adventures of Vika and her fairy godmother, who works wonders for her goddaughter with her own hands. Just like us enthusiastic mothers :-)
11. V. Zotov "New Year's story" (labyrinth). On the eve of the New Year, Santa Claus visits the guys to find out what they really want to get for the holiday. And so grandfather was visiting the boy Viti, who was a rude man at home, quiet at school, and at the same time dreamed of a real car. And I got a movie projector, which shows the behavior of the boy from the outside. Great teaching move!
12. Peter Nikl "The True Story of the Good Wolf" (labyrinth). A fairy tale about a wolf who decided to change his fate and stop being just a frightening and frightening beast for everyone. The wolf became a doctor, but the former glory did not allow him to fully reveal his talent until the animals were convinced of the good intentions of the wolf. Multi-layered, philosophical tale. I think readers different ages find something in it.
13. (labyrinth). A folk tale about a cunning fox and a short-sighted gullible wolf, who suffered the most, was left without a tail, and did not understand who was responsible for all his troubles.
14. (labyrinth). A folk tale about friendship and mutual assistance, in which animals built a hut for themselves and together defended themselves from forest predators.
15. (labyrinth). A folk tale in which the grandfather lost his mitten and all the animals that were cold came to warm themselves in the mitten. As usual in fairy tales, many animals fit into the mitten. And as the dog barked, the animals fled, and the grandfather picked up an ordinary mitten from the ground.
16. V. Odoevsky "Moroz Ivanovich" (labyrinth). The adventures of a needlewoman who dropped a bucket into a well and found a completely different world at its bottom, in which its owner, Moroz Ivanovich, gives everyone justice. The needlewoman - silver patches and a diamond, and Lenivitsa - an icicle and mercury.
17. (labyrinth). original folk tale about Emel, who caught and released a magic pike, and now strange and unexpected things are happening throughout the kingdom at his command.
18. Sven Nordqvist "Christmas Porridge" (labyrinth). A Swedish writer's tale that people forgot traditions and decided not to bring porridge to their dwarf father before Christmas. This can provoke the wrath of the dwarves and then people will face a whole year of trouble. The gnome decides to save the situation, she wants to remind people of herself and bring porridge for the gnome.
19. S. Kozlov "Winter Tales" (labyrinth). Kind and touching stories about the Hedgehog and his friends, about their friendship and desire to help each other. The original decisions of the main characters and the author's kind humor make this book understandable for kids and interesting for older children.
20. Astrid Lindgren "Merry Cuckoo" (labyrinth). Gunnar and Gunilla had been ill for a whole month and dad bought them a cuckoo clock so that the children would always know what time it was. But the cuckoo was not wooden, but alive. She made the kids happy and helped with Christmas presents for mom and dad.
21. Valko "New Year's Trouble" (labyrinth). Winter has come in the hare valley. Everyone is preparing for the New Year and making gifts for each other, but then there was a snow fall and the house of Jacob the hare was completely destroyed. The animals helped him build a new house, rescued a stranger and met New Year in a big friendly company.
22. V.Suteev "Yolka"(collection of winter tales in labyrinth). The guys gathered to celebrate the New Year, but there is no Christmas tree. Then they decided to write a letter to Santa Claus and pass it on with the Snowman. Dangers awaited the snowman on the way to Santa Claus, but with the help of his friends he coped with the task and for the New Year the children had a festive tree.
23. E. Uspensky "Winter in Prostokvashino" (labyrinth). Uncle Fyodor and dad are going to celebrate the New Year in Prostokvashino. The plot is slightly different from the film of the same name, but at the end, the mother also joins the family, having come to them on skis.
24. E. Rakitina "Adventures of New Year's toys" (labyrinth). Small adventures told on behalf of different toys that happened to them during their entire life, most of which they spent on the Christmas tree. Various toys - different tempers, desires, dreams and plans.
25. A. Usachev "New Year at the Zoo" (labyrinth). A fairy tale about how the inhabitants of the zoo decided to celebrate the New Year. And next to the zoo, Santa Claus had an accident and his horses ran away somewhere. Zoo residents helped deliver gifts and celebrated the New Year together with Grandfather Frost.
26. A. Usachev "Miracles in Dedmorozovka" (Ozone). A fairy tale about Santa Claus, the Snow Maiden and their helpers - snowmen and snowmen, who were fashioned from snow and revived at the beginning of winter. Snowmen have already helped Santa Claus with the delivery of gifts for the New Year and arranged a holiday in their village. And now they continue to study at school, help the Snow Maiden in the greenhouse and act out a little, because of which they end up in funny situations.
27. Levi Pinfold "Black Dog" (labyrinth). "Fear has big eyes," says folk wisdom. And this tale shows how brave a little girl can be, and how humor and games can help to cope even with great fear.
28. "Old Frost and Young Frost". A Lithuanian folk tale about how easy it is to freeze in the cold, wrapped in warm blankets, and how fearless the frost is during active work with an ax in your hands.
29. V. Gorbachev "How Piggy spent the winter"(labyrinth). The story is about Piggy-bouncer, who, due to his inexperience and gullibility, went north with a fox and was left without provisions, ended up in a bear's den and barely swept away from the wolves.
30. Br. and S. Paterson "Adventures in the Fox Forest" (labyrinth). Winter has come in the Fox Forest and everyone is getting ready for the New Year. Hedgehog, Squirrel and Mouse were preparing gifts, but there was not enough pocket money and they decided to earn extra money. New Year's songs and collection of brushwood did not help them earn money, but the help of the carriage, which had an accident, gave them an acquaintance with a new judge and a New Year's masquerade ball awaited them ahead.
31. S.Marshak "12 months" (labyrinth). A fairy tale play in which the kind and hardworking Stepdaughter received in December from the month of April a whole basket of snowdrops.

Let's tell you a secret that we decided not just to read fairy tales, but to read and play based on their stories in anticipation of the New Year 2018. We are waiting for adventures, quests, games and creative tasks. If you want the same fabulous Advent that lasts all of December, then we invite you to New Year's quest "The dog saves the New Year."

The New Year came at twelve o'clock, and at that time I was always already asleep. It's been so many New Years! And I haven't seen one. Both mother and aunt Vera met him, and I slept. I always fell asleep before the New Year. And I woke up in the morning, and my mother gave me gifts and said: “Well, the New Year!” But I knew that...

Once upon a time, - my grandfather lived with another wife. The grandfather had a daughter, and the woman had a daughter. Everyone knows how to live for a stepmother: if you turn over - a bit and if you don't trust - a bit. BUT own daughter no matter what he does, they pat him on the head for everything: clever. The stepdaughter watered and fed the cattle, carried firewood and water to the hut, heated the stove, ...

Once upon a time there was an old Frost Blue Nose, and he had a young son - Frost Red Nose. Well, the young Frost Red Nose loved to boast! Only, it happened, and repeats: “Father is already old, he does his job poorly. And here I am - young and strong. As soon as I get down to business, I will immediately freeze everything around. Once he sees...

A bedtime story about the New Year - for new experiences, for your good mood, for a calm, happy sleep. New Year is a holiday that makes hearts kinder, gives hope for the best, fills the soul with warmth and joy. New Year is full of secrets, miracles, surprises and magic. And it's charming! Happy New Year! Peace, fulfillment of desires, happiness, understanding, beauty!

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Bedtime story about New Year

Once upon a time there was Santa Claus. He was tall, handsome, and had a rich white beard. He lived in a beautiful little house with painted shutters, a high porch and patterned glass in the illuminated windows. Every winter, Santa Claus congratulated all the inhabitants of the Fairytale Forest on the New Year. The inhabitants of the Fairy Forest dressed up in carnival costumes, and it was impossible to tell which of them was a fox and which was a hare. Santa Claus congratulated everyone, and often went to the neighboring Azure Forest to congratulate local residents on the New Year.

Once upon a time there was a story. Early, early, a little titmouse flew to Santa Claus and told him that Baba Yaga was asking to visit her.

"What does the venerable rogue want?" - thought Santa Claus, but did not refuse the invitation.

“I’ll come to dinner,” said Santa Claus.

But he did not manage to come to dinner, and he showed up at the house on chicken legs only in the evening. At the very house of Baba Yaga there was a stump. Santa Claus accidentally touched him with his staff, the stump swayed, shook himself and mumbled:

- What kind of case did you complain about?

“Baba Yaga herself called,” Santa Claus answered.

“Come in,” the stump said peacefully.

Baba Yaga treated Santa Claus with bagels, and then says:

“In the Far, Far Forest, you, Red Nose Frost, have never been seen. And there were no spruce trees there; there only witch-oaks grow. Pack it up, take it there Christmas tree Yes, gifts to the inhabitants of the forest.

- What am I going to do there? Santa Claus asked. “My horses don’t even know the way there.

“So be it, let’s go together in my mortar,” said Baba Yaga.

“But it will be too small for the two of us,” said Santa Claus.

“Don’t worry about it,” Baba Yaga said.

- Why are you so kind? Santa Claus hesitated.

“So for once you gave me a gift today - you gave me a new broom and fixed the stove, otherwise I, the old one, began to freeze completely.

And they decided the next morning to fly to the Far, far away forest. Santa Claus put on a warmer coat, took gifts and a Christmas tree. But Baba Yaga found fur mittens, and pulled on woolen socks, but she didn’t take any gifts, because Baba-Yozhka doesn’t give any gifts, and she waved a broom.

Baba Yaga knocked on her mortar with a broom, which immediately increased in size, Santa Claus and Baba Yaga sat in the mortar and flew off.

How long, how short, but they flew to the Far, far away forest. As the inhabitants of the forest saw the flying Baba Yaga, they hid in all directions.

Santa Claus and Baba Yaga landed, gathered to congratulate the inhabitants of the Far, Far Forest on the New Year, but no one was there. They were screaming, yelling, no one was there. What to do? Whom to congratulate?

And with them in flight, a small titmouse tagged along. When Santa Claus and Baba Yaga were going on the road, she darted into the pocket of Santa Claus's fur coat, and sat there all the way.

When Santa Claus and Baba Yaga began to look for animals and birds, she got out of her pocket and said:

“Don't worry, I'll bring the animals and birds to you now.

And she flew off to look for the local titmouse. She found and told them that Santa Claus and Baba Yaga had arrived to congratulate everyone on the New Year and give gifts. And they brought something else.

It turned out christmas tree, which was seen by the inhabitants of the Far, Far Forest itself, who ran to the Silvery Glade. They were invited by numerous tits.

The inhabitants of the Far, Farthest Forest gasped when they examined the beautiful Christmas tree with toys, lanterns and lights. Santa Claus presented gifts to everyone, and Baba Yaga told a New Year's fairy tale. Little titmouse made riddles.

And when the clock of Santa Claus struck twelve times, everyone shouted in unison:

- Happy New Year! Hooray!

And they danced together. And then the little sparrow said that he was tired and wanted to sleep. The cubs, wolf cubs, and squirrels also wanted to sleep.

Well! Sleep is also little holiday. A holiday of happy events, fabulous transformations. Children grow up in their sleep. It's great!

Grow up too, my friend. Gain strength and health. Santa Claus asked me to tell you that everything will be fine with you!

A. N. Ostrovsky in 1873 interprets “The Snow Maiden” in his own spring fairy tale in a completely different way. Under the influence of different versions of the fairy tale, he writes the play “The Snow Maiden”. Now she is an adult - a beauty - the daughter of Frost and Spring, who dies in the summer. She has the appearance of a beautiful pale blonde girl. Dressed in white and blue clothes with fur trim (fur coat, fur hat, mittens). Initially, the play was not successful with the public. But the opera of the same name, which in 1882 N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov put on the play, was a huge success.

The book can be bought with illustrations by V. Vasnetsov (Meshcheryakov Publishing House)
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or cheaper - from the series " School library» artist Ionaitis Olga.
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And one more, much less known fairy tale about the Snow Maiden. Wrote it Veniamin Kaverin, and it is aimed, of course, at adults or teenagers who are already reading books for adults. The reviews write that this is "Monday begins on Saturday" in miniature.

But what are we all about the granddaughter! Time to talk about grandpa.

What kind of fairy tales about Frost were invented by the people (though not about Santa Claus, about Frost), as soon as they called him. And Frost the Red Nose, and Frost the Blue Nose, and Crack Frost. And how many storytellers were fascinated by this image! A. N. Afanasiev called him Morozko, V. F. Odoevsky called him Moroz Ivanovich, because each author has his own idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthis image.

So such fairy tales appeared: “Moroz Ivanovich” (there is a shorter Russian folk tale and in the retelling of V.F. Odoevsky - a little more authentic (about the Needlewoman and Sloth). In the proposed edition - illustrations by the artist Konashevich V.M., publishing house Melik-Pashaev, 2013
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According to researchers who studied the records of the fairy tale "Morozko" in different regions, there are at least forty only Russian varieties of it.

"Frost" - about the stepdaughter and his own daughter - we will give several options:
Russian folk in the retelling of M. Bulatov, in the proposed edition of the illustration by Nina Noskovich, Series: Mom's favorite book
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in the book Russian folk tales with illustrations by Yu. Korovin, a variant is given in retelling of Tolstoy Alexei Nikolaevich,
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In the processing of A. Afanasiev (in a large collection of his fairy tales there are 2 versions of a fairy tale at once), in the proposed edition - the most common version.
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"Two frosts" (about frost Blue-nose and frost Red-nose):
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in the retelling of Mikhailov Mikhail Larionovich:
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And a few more fairy tales, where the action takes place in winter, are also usually included in New Year's collections:

Folk
- "By pike command"(proposed edition - illustrator: Rafail Volsky, Meshcheryakov Publishing House)
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- "Sister Chanterelle and grey Wolf» - there are many publications, which illustrations you like more - choose for yourself.

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for example, P. P. Bazhov “Silver Hoof”, in 2015 a new edition of this wonderful tale of the Ural storyteller was published - one of the lightest, most elegant and at the same time capacious magical stories. In this unique book, the talents of the author and the artist miraculously combined and greatly increased each other's merits. What P. P. Bazhov said simply and succinctly, the St. Petersburg artist Mikhail Bychkov turned into picturesque canvases with his magic brush.

Book of publishing house Akvarel, a series "Wizards of the brush".
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Brothers Grimm "Lady Snowstorm" (there are translations of the name "Grandma Snowstorm", "Grandmother Blizzard").
We offer this tale in the collection "The Brothers Grimm. Tales”, published by the publishing house “Seraphim and Sofia” in the series: “Tales of the Wise Cricket” in 2011 with illustrations by a talented artist - graphic artist - illustrator Ksenia Kareva. She graduated with honors from MGHPA them. S. G. Stroganova with a degree in book illustration, a student of the Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Koshkin.
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For many years it has been our "New Year's classic" "Twelve Months" - a Slovak folk tale in the retelling of S.Ya. Marshak, (although sometimes it is called spring). Marshak wrote the New Year's fairy tale-play "Twelve Months" in 1943, at the height of the war. In the 2014 edition of AST, S. Marshak's New Year's play is printed without abbreviations - all 4 acts. A. Sazonov's illustrations are original, similar to pencil sketches for the animated film of the same name.
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Evgeny Permyak "Magic colors". In the cited collection of the Eksmo publishing house in the series “Books are my friends”, in addition to this fairy tale, there are many beautiful fairy tales of the Russian children's classic.
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Many winter tales were written by G.Kh. Andersen. First of all, it is, of course, the Snow Queen, beloved by children. For many years, one of the best editions of this book was the one with illustrations by Nicky Goltz.
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In 2015, the Snow Queen with illustrations was published by the Good Book publishing house Christian Birmingham, contains 35 illustrations, including 7 large canvases for a full spread each. This edition is called the most beautiful illustrated version to date. classic fairy tale Andersen.
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There were publications in the series “Masterpieces of book illustration for children” (with illustrations by Pavel Tatarnikov in one and P.J. Lynch in the other).

Andersen also has The Snowman, and The Story of the Year, and The Little Match Girl. If it seems to you that Andersen's winter tales are rather sad, then this is true - Andersen is generally a very sad author (and a sad person - remember the film by E. Ryazanov?).
In the cited collection of Andersen's fairy tales there is "The Snowman" and "The Little Match Girl" and, by the way, "The Snow Queen". Artist: Fuchikova Renata, Publisher: Eksmo, 2014 Series: Golden Tales.
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Let's call some fairy tale books "truly New Year's" - the thing in them takes place precisely on the New Year.

A few tales about the main guest of the New Year - Yolka.

Probably, the story “Yolka”, written by V.G. Suteev back in 1955, can already be considered a classic (there is also a cartoon based on this tale - “The Snowman-Mailman”).
There is in the new collection of the AST publishing house in 2015 "Soon, soon the New Year!".
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Another New Year's story by V. G. Suteev "Gift" - in 2015 again came out in a separate edition,
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is together with "Yolka" in the collection: "Fairytale stories for the New Year."

And one more Russian classic there is a New Year's story with the name "Yolka" - M. M. Zoshchenko. It takes place on New Year's Eve by the Christmas tree.

A variety of New Year's stories

V. Golyavkin "How I celebrated the New Year" (we offer a scan with the author's pictures).

N. Nosov's story "Sparklers" was first published in Murzilka in the winter of 1945. This is from a cycle of stories about Misha and Kolya, when Misha made sparklers, and then they went together to the forest for a Christmas tree ... In the text of N. Nosov, quite realistic , the difficulties experienced by the country are somehow felt: the children make sparklers themselves, they also went to cut the Christmas tree in the forest on their own, without a dad, the main and, apparently, the only treat at the table is a pie baked by Mishka Kozlov’s mother.

Around the same time, the fairy tale "Two Brothers" by Yevgeny Schwartz was written. A story about responsibility. On the eve of the New Year, the younger brother, offended by the elder, left home. The father sent the elder to look for the younger, he met Great-Grandfather Frost in the forest ...

In this edition of the book, more than just illustrations wonderful artist Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin, it was published by the Nigma publishing house in the series "Heritage of N. Kochergin"
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Many people remember and love the cartoon "Hedgehog in the Fog". The author of the fairy tale itself is Sergey Kozlov. He wrote quite a few more fairy tales - episodes from the life of the Hedgehog and the Bear cub. S. Kozlov composed a special fairy tale: "How a hedgehog, a bear cub and a donkey celebrated the New Year." She gave the name to one of the collections of S. Kozlov.
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There is a book where most of S. Kozlov's Winter Tales are combined.
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At Edward Uspensky there is a whole epic in 7 books about Prostokvashino. In the third part "Winter in Prostokvashino" final chapter- New Year in Prostokvashino. You can read it in the new collection of the AST 2015 publishing house “Soon, soon the New Year!” (in the same place where "Yolka" by V. Suteev), or in separate editions:
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or this one: In the Labyrinth

Book V. S. Vitkovich and G. B. Yagfeld"Tale in broad daylight". In this fabulous story, the action takes place on December 31, come to life, find a soul ... snowmen. And these souls turn out to be different, like desires and actions former snowmen. There are two more fairy tales in the collection, all three were written a long time ago, now these fairy tales would be attributed to the genre of “children's thrillers”.
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Nikolai Glagolev"The Tale of Tweekly the Mouse and Santa Claus",
Natalia Loseva "New Year's story"
N. P. Wagner (Cat-Purr)"New Year ".

J. Rodari "Planet of Christmas Trees", where " A year is only six months long. Each month has no more than fifteen days. And every day is New Year's».
This book was not republished for quite a long time, but in 2014 it was published by the Rosmen publishing house with illustrations Victoria Fomina.
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The fairy tale "Journey of the Blue Arrow" by Gianni Rodari, written in a fascinating and light manner, tells about the magical Christmas journey of the Blue Arrow toy train and its puppet passengers.
This fairy tale is constantly reprinted, many different editions are on sale.
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Recently, we learned three more prose tales by Gianni Rodari for the age of readers somewhere from 6-7 years old: “ New toy"- a sort of techno-tale, "Under the canopy of the New Year tree" - it was written by a literate cat and sent to the editorial office of the newspaper. About the amazing incidents before Christmas in the family where he lives, “Colorful Snow” is a small philosophical parable. Together with the author's poems, they are published in the book " amazing book fairy tales and poems by Gianni Rodari.
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Tove Jansson "Magic Winter" Drawings by the author. Publisher: Azbuka, 2015
Series: Moomintroll and all-all-all
As you know, in winter the inhabitants of the valley sleep. But Moomintroll suddenly woke up and found that he had slept. He sought out Little Myu, and they eagerly waited for the Ice Maiden. During the long winter, they will have to endure a lot: dangerous adventures, amazing meetings and fun party. But on the other hand, in the spring, Moomin can proudly say that he is the first Moomin in the world who did not sleep for a whole year.
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- one of the most famous writers of magical stories from Finland, was a younger contemporary of Hans Christian Andersen and, according to the famous Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, "preserved the fabulous style in all its beautiful simplicity adding to it only special warmth and cordiality. His fairy tales, in which trolls, giants and forest spirits live, have been read by children and adults all over the world for many, many years. His winter tales are published with illustrations by one of the best Soviet illustrators children's book - Alexandra Nikolaevna Yakobson thanks to which they acquired a special expressiveness and visibility of images.

In 2015, the fairy tales were republished as separate books: "Winter's Tale" by Rech publishing house, series: Mom's Favorite Book
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and "Sampo-loparenok" by the publishing house of the Cloud,
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Let's recall here Gaidar A.P. The story "Chuk and Gek", where the action takes place in winter and ends on New Year's Day, is not at all politicized, but on the contrary - light, homely. Published frequently, in the proposed edition - illustrations by the artist Anatoly Slepkov, Publisher: Melik Pashaev, 2013
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It is impossible not to mention D. N. Mamin-Sibiryaka. His "Gray Neck" - a surprisingly kind and touching story with a happy ending - was written in 1893 and has since become a classic of world literature for children, a story about a duck that damaged its wing and was left alone for the winter. In both proposed editions, illustrations Lyudmila Karpenko- tender, pastel colors, realistic, surprisingly accurately conveying the mood and atmosphere of the story.
In the Labyrinth edition from Ripol-Classic, 2012 in the series "Masterpieces of book illustration for children",
Another edition - TriMag Publishing House, 2008
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Tales of New Year and Christmas

Often fairy tales, and other texts that were written a long time ago (and not only) refer not so much to the New Year as to Christmas.

Charles Dickens is considered the father of Christmas books. AT mid-nineteenth century, he composed several Christmas stories and began to publish them in the December issues of his magazines Home Reading and All the Year Round. Dickens combined the stories with the title "Christmas Books": "Christmas hymn in prose", " Christmas story haunted", "The Bells", "The Story of the Spirits of the Church Clock", "The Cricket Behind the Hearth", "The Tale of Family Happiness", "The Battle of Life", "A Tale of Love", "The Possessed, or Deal with a Ghost" - all these works are densely populated with supernatural creatures: both angels and various evil spirits. Since ancient times, the time of the shortest days and the longest nights has been perceived as a confrontation between light and darkness. If Dickens and his followers did not believe that the outcome of the struggle between Good and Evil depends on the will of people, there would simply be no Christmas stories. " Christmas, writes Dickens, this is the time when, louder than at any other time of the year, the memory of all sorrows, insults and suffering in the world around us speaks in us<…>and, just like everything that we ourselves have experienced in our lifetime, it encourages us to do good. Miraculous salvation, the rebirth of evil into good, reconciliation of enemies, forgetfulness of insults are popular motives for Christmas and Christmas stories.

Now stores offer a paperback edition of this book from the Classics series (Azbuka Publishing House), in which there are 2 stories: A Christmas Carol in Prose (1843) and Bells (1844).
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The tradition took root well in Russian literature. Until 1917, almanacs, special issues of illustrated magazines, annual newspapers were published for the holidays - according to A.P. Chekhov, with "all sorts of Christmas stuff."

Even before the named stories of Dickens, the now well-known "The Night Before Christmas" by N.V. Gogol appeared to everyone. Proposed book from Eksmo publishing house 2012 with illustrations by the artist Anatoly Slepkov, which are called original. In most reviews, these illustrations are praised, but some of them seemed insufficiently bright and expressive.

“... they are “alive”, give the book a certain mystery. A good font for reading, despite the monotony of color, colorfully designed pages .... The book turned out to be simply magical ... the artist managed to convey this spirit of magic, a miracle, a wonderful holiday. Magic that at least once a year allows not only witches and devils to fly. You look at these illustrations in snowy, white and blue tones, and you hear the crunch of snow under your feet, you feel a light frost sting your cheeks, you inhale the fresh, invigorating night air ... before your eyes - wonderful pictures: Solokha with her unlucky admirers, beautiful Oksana, admiring her reflection, and admiring her blacksmith Vakula.
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And the almost forgotten "Night of Christmas" by K. Baranov.

Indeed, Christmas books were ubiquitous and far from monotonous. They amazingly combined the heritage of ancient bylichka and Christian morality.

Wonderful Christmas stories were created by: N. S. Leskov: “The Unchangeable Ruble”, “The Beast”, “The Sealed Angel”, “Christ Visiting the Man”.
There is a collection the best works N. S. Leskova "Lefty", published back in 2006 by the AST publishing house in the series "World Children's Library" Artist: Tyurin A. "Great art direction (color illustrations and cloth cover) make this book even more attractive."
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A. P. Chekhov "Vanka", "Boys", "At Christmas time", etc.

A. I. Kuprin A real Christmas story, almost like a fairy tale "The Wonderful Doctor" and another Christmas fairy tale: "Taper".

F. M. Dostoevsky"Christ's boy on the Christmas tree",

and all this, and some more works from Russian classics on the Christmas theme, are in the wonderful book “The Christmas Miracle. Stories of Russian writers. Publisher: OlmaMediaGrupp, 2014, series: Gift editions. Classic illustrations.
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Shmelev I. . “Christmas, Christmas time” (From the story “Summer of the Lord”).
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From fairy tales D. N. Mamin-Sibiryaka The Christmas theme is related to the fairy tale “It's time to sleep” - the last from the cycle “Alyonushka's Tales” and “Wintering on Studenaya”.

From Christmas stories to theirs classical form, perhaps the most festive of Christmas tales is the Tale of E. T. A. Hoffmann "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." Gift story. Fairy tale gift. The events of The Nutcracker begin on Christmas Eve (December 24), at that very solemn moment when Christians expect the first star to appear in the evening sky.. Of course, many "Soviet" and even current publications emasculate the Christmas theme, but let's keep in mind that once Hoffmann composed the most Christmas fairy tale.

There were a lot of editions of this book by Hoffmann. A very famous illustrator of the Nutcracker - Nika Goltz, Makhaon Publishing House, 2015 offered publication in the series "Masterpieces of Children's Literature"

Back in 2011, the publishing house Rosmen-Press published a publication with illustrations by the artist Maxim Mitrofanov: « Everyone knows, wonderful, romantic story presented in excellent illustrations that can bring even such a gloomy tale as the Nutcracker to life«.
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Eksmo publishing house in 2015 in the series "Golden Tales for Children" published the fairy tale "The Nutcracker and mouse king» illustrated by Artush Shiner. Artush Scheiner (1863-1938) is an excellent Czech artist who created illustrations for the works of G.-H. Andersen, W. Shakespeare, E. T. A. Hoffmann, to the fairy tales of Czech writers. His drawings are truly magical, detailed and light.
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Publishing house "Rech" in 2015 released Hoffmann's fairy tale with illustrations of the work Valery Alferovsky that give the story a special magic. This book has become last book, which was illustrated by the artist, she came out only once - in 1978. There are a lot of drawings in this edition, out of 64 spreads, only 12 remained with bare text. The drawings are here different size: full page, half, third. All of them are in unusual technique, drawn with quills and watercolors. “The works are simply amazing: so delicate, bright, beautiful, like pictures from vintage European postcards.” The translation here is classic and most complete - Irina Tatarinova.
On the Internet you can see several illustrations, as well as unique illustrations by Dagmar Berkove for the Nutcracker. There were also excellent illustrations by G. Spirin.
There is a wonderful audio performance based on The Nutcracker with music by Tchaikovsky, there are already more than one cartoon.

The same thing happened to G. H. Andersen. We knew the Snow Queen, not tied to Christmas. But the author "... the children sang a Christmas carol: “Roses are blooming… Beauty, beauty! Soon we will see the baby Christ» (Translated by A. Ganzen). Sometimes, in edited editions, formidable angels turned into "little men."

Already in the 2000s, a fairy tale was translated into Russian Lyman Frank Baum"The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus". Baum wrote it in 1902, right after The Wizard of Oz. The biography of Santa Claus invented by the storyteller has little in common with the biography of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Baum, in his own way, explains to the kids where Christmas presents come from. " When the world was still young, one forest nymph adopted an abandoned baby - Klaus. He grew up and, living in the Laughing Valley, began to make toys to give them to children. In the end, people recognized him as a saint, and the immortals gave him their mantle. The storyteller has it all figured out. Over time, “old Klaus not only delivered gifts, but also sent toys to stores so that parents, if they wanted to give their children more toys, would easily find them there. And if for some reason Klaus can't bring a gift to a child, he can go to the store himself and get as many toys as he wants. For the friend of the little ones decided that not a single child should be left without a gift that he dreams of.
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Lagerlöf Selma Ottilius Luvis. "The Legend of the Christmas Rose". This is an amazing tale about the miracles that took place in the Geingen Forest. And the only surviving evidence of those events is a fragile flower that grew from the roots collected by Abbot John. Despite the cold, it blooms in the middle of winter, and for this it was called the Christmas rose - as a reminder of that wonderful garden that once bloomed in the wilderness on the holy night. A fairy tale in which even the most cruel and callous hearts are filled with the expectation of a miracle.
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When translating books from foreign languages ​​into Soviet times often tried to replace Christmas with the New Year, and Santa Claus and Pierre Noel with Santa Claus.
Not all Christmas tales are overtly religious in nature, and even some modern author's tales and stories are simply light and joyful.

Elena Karling "The night before Christmas ... or the fairy tale came true" ...

Elena Maslo "Christmas at the godmother. True stories and a little bit of magic." The book is written from the perspective of a girl whose parents have no time to deal with it. And she spends the New Year holidays with her godmother. And what miracles they work together, come up with various entertainments! Little Vika and her beloved godmother - inventors and kind souls - either set up a snowflake factory, or invite everyone to go skiing right from the window of their apartment, then, together with all the surrounding children, they sculpt a snow horse, which, wearing a magic scarf, turns into a real Pegasus. New Year's gifts for children and adults are falling from the sky, all-all-all dreams come true - even the most cherished and unspoken, and there is more magic and kindness in the world! The book is filled with magic, peace and kindness! Rech Publishing House - 2014 and 2013, drawings Belarusian artist Vladimir Dovgyalo snow-air - very suitable for the text of this book.
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Nancy Walker Guy"The best gift for Christmas." A Christmas story about the adventures of a teddy bear, a hare and a raccoon on their way to visit a badger. The Christmas gifts are a hit! However, on the way they get into a snowstorm, and the wind blows away beautiful garlands, multi-colored Christmas decorations and the sparkling Star of Bethlehem. There is nothing to do, they have to go to visit with empty paws. But Christmas wouldn't be Christmas if miracles didn't happen that night...

This story, absolutely Christmas in spirit, wonderfully told with the help of illustrations (artist Briswalter Maren), can be considered even by the smallest child. The book very well conveys the feeling of a Christmas miracle in life - the child, holding his breath, is waiting for how the fearless journey through the winter forest will end.
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Fairy tales are modern

The above tales have become, relatively speaking, New Year and Christmas classics, but in recent years many good books have been published, written and Russian authors, and fairy tales translated into Russian by authors from various countries.

fairy tale Andrei Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak"The True Story of Santa Claus" The action of the story spans a whole century. By chance, engineer-traveler Sergei Ivanovich Morozov once a year turns into Santa Claus. Together with him, we live the 20th century and step into the 21st century, and the history of our country passes before our eyes, bright and gloomy, victorious and tragic, familiar and unfamiliar. Comments in the margins tell about important historical events and everyday life in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, about calendar and spelling reforms, about what Father Frost did wrong before the Soviet government, and about many, many other things..

The book was written in 2007, addressed to children aged 8-12, those who have not yet completely parted with faith in New Year's miracle but is already ready to learn the truth about the life and history of his country. There are already three editions of this book - standard, gift and collection, in all illustrations by artists: Britvin Victor, Muratova Olga Valerievna.
In the Labyrinth - there are all three versions of the book, the link - the collector's edition

One of the most popular modern children's writers, Andrey Usachev, has great respect for winter and new year theme. He writes stories, poems, fairy tales and makes many audiobooks and plays. Then the available works are combined into collections. First, “From the Life of Snowmen” and “Snowmen School” appeared: once before the new year, Santa Claus decided that he did not have enough helper grandchildren. And she and the Snow Maiden made 11 snowmen and 9 snowmen. And then his quiet life ended ... Funny, exciting and cautionary tales about the adventures of little snowmen in the magical village of Dedmorozovka.

Then the collections "Santa Claus from Dedmorozovka" and "Miracles in Dedmorozovka" appeared. In 2008, the book was published in two parts and in a New Year's design. It turned out very festive. A. Usachev came up with the wonderful village of Dedmorozovka, settled Ded Moroz, Snegurochka and their snowman helpers (girls and boys) there and not only told how they give gifts for the New Year, but also about what they do the rest season: snowmen study at the school of snowmen and generally behave like all other children: upset because of grades, hooligans, enjoy life. There are quite a few stories in each book. Usually, the design of books is not inferior to the content: hardcover, thick white paper, chic New Year's frames covered with winter patterns and colorful expressive illustrations Alexandra Alira,Ekaterina Zdornova, Viktor Chizhikov.

Now stores offer 4 collections from this series: School of Snowmen, Olympic Village Dedmorozovka, Santa Claus Post Office.
"Miracles in Dedmorozovka" Publisher: Rosmen 2013
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"School of snowmen" Publisher: Rosmen-Press 2012
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"Olympic Village Dedmorozovka" Publisher: Rosmen 2013
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"Mail of Santa Claus" Publisher: Rosmen 2013
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There is also a publication that combines all the fabulous stories about Dedmorozovka and its inhabitants from these 4 books. "All about Dedmorozovka". Author's collection. Andrey Usachov. Illustrators: Ekaterina Zdornova, Elena Zdornova, Victor Chizhikov. Publisher: Rosmen 2014
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Especially for young readers, Andrey Usachev prepared a collection of poems "The Alphabet of Santa Claus". To memorize most of the letters, he came up with two poems. The entire primer deals with the winter theme and the New Year holidays, a colorful large picture is drawn for each poem. With this alphabet, you will not only repeat all the letters of the Russian alphabet with your children, but also find out where the New Year comes from, where Santa Claus lives and where crayfish spend the winter, and you will also reveal many, many other New Year's secrets.

There are several editions of this book (in different publishing houses, designed by different artists).
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In the Labyrinth - Onyx Publishing House 2010 (there are other publications).

In 2015, Andrey Usachev's New Year's book of poems "It was in the New Year" was published. Painter: Avgustinovich Irina. Publisher: Ripol-Klassik,
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Winter comes once a year.
Let's light a star on the Christmas tree
To the delight of the little ones and adults.
And it's time for
To see the magic
And meet Santa Claus.

A short story by V. Stepanov "The Silver Key" is just about Santa Claus - it is often included in various collections.
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A. Kostinsky's story "The Day of the First Snow" (can be read in the collection The Invisible Tree, published in 1989) “There is an Ice House and an Ice Garden at the North Pole, where all the world's Father Frost, Pere Noel, Santa Claus and others are grown in glass balls at a temperature of -33C. But they are in danger: due to the general warming of the climate, they may not grow. Snowman Ledenets goes to the city of Tutaktamsk to the world's best refrigeration specialist Leopold Agregatov. But, unfortunately, Agregatov categorically does not believe in fairy tales and simply hates storytellers ... ".

Elena Rakitina "The Adventures of New Year's Toys". Each chapter is dedicated to the story of one of the toys. This is a truly New Year's book, because it is a fairy tale about the adventures of New Year's toys. After all, children so want to believe that Christmas decorations really come to life! And in the New Year there must be a place for miracles. Illustrator: Ludmila Pipchenko. Publisher: Speech 2014

"The Land of New Year's Toys" is a continuation of the book "The Adventures of New Year's Toys" by Elena Rakitina. But here are no longer separate stories, but a whole journey of the same heroes of the first book to the Land of New Year's Toys. Many common human problems are touched upon. The book makes you think about eternal values, experience a lot of emotions together with the characters of the book, instill feelings of empathy, responsibility, and care. The book is made in the same format as the previous one, the same excellent quality of offset paper, color ratio of illustrations. Both of these books for both children and adults, they create new Year mood, return to childhood, make you believe in miracles and wait for the magic of the New Year! Illustrator: Ludmila Pipchenko. Publisher: Speech 2014
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Sofia Prokofieva, Irina Tokmakova"Gift for the Snow Maiden." Fairy tale Christmas book The Wolf and the Fox kidnapped the Snow Maiden, and Mitroshka the Hare, the Christmas Bell and the Fir Cone, with the help of the Wise Raven, the wind Athanasius and the Casket with magic songs, boldly rushed to save her. A fairy tale is written beautiful language, in the text there are short songs and spells that can be learned and read with children. Artist: Fadeeva Olga Publisher: Rech, 2015 Series: Tales for children.
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Akim, Dragunsky, Zolotov"New Year. Terribly confusing." This book is interesting not only for beautiful illustrations and text, but for the form of narration itself. The history of the New Year is presented in the form of investigation materials. The entire volume of the book is divided into eight "cases", each of which will tell the child about when and why this or that tradition associated with the celebration of the New Year arose. Artist: Elena Borisova Publisher: Labyrinth, 2014 Series: New Year.
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Elena Lipatova "Yolka Alyonka" Children's fairy tale in verse about a small Christmas tree named Alyonka, which was bought for Christmas. But she missed her mother so much that she decided to go to the forest in search of her ... And then the adventures of Alyonka's Christmas tree began!
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Translations of foreign authors

Sven Nordqvist, a Swedish writer and artist, is already well known in Russia to children and parents. Sven Nordqvist himself illustrates his books. “I like to do everything myself,” he says. And he writes and draws about Petson, whose whole house and yard is inhabited by small funny creatures. Sven Nordqvist calls them myukles. Petson always has a couple of mues in his pocket. On occasion, they can give the right advice or sing something funny. The most ordinary items in Petson's house look completely unusual: in his kitchen he has a lot of little things and gizmos lying around, multi-colored socks are drying on a rope, all sorts of pots and mugs are on the stove, and funny pictures with cows hang on the walls.

Among the favorite books are several stories about Pettson and his kitten Findus and Christmas.

"Christmas at Pettson's House". Petson and his kitten Findus are in a hurry to put things in order in the house, because Christmas is coming soon, they have almost done everything, it remains only to decorate the Christmas tree and prepare a festive dinner. And suddenly something bad happened. Petson slipped and injured his leg. Now he will not be able to go to the forest for a Christmas tree and to the store to buy treats. Petson and Findus no longer hoped to celebrate Christmas merrily, but unexpectedly wonderful guests came to their house ...

In continuation - the New Year's book by S. Nurdqvist "Mechanical Santa Claus". This story is a little different from the rest of the stories about these heroes - both in volume and in the slowness of the narrative, but this story is the most magical, the most New Year's Eve - Old man Petson and Kitten Findus are preparing to celebrate Christmas. “But what is Christmas without Santa Claus?” Thinks Findus. In order not to upset him, Petson decides to design Santa Claus himself. Yes, even such that he talked and moved. But how to make sure that Findus does not notice the substitution?
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And also Sven Nurdqvist: "Christmas porridge". This book tells about Christmas in a family of dwarves, where their traditions reign. On New Year's Eve, the hosts must bring them a plate of porridge, otherwise misfortunes will happen. But this year, people have forgotten the ancient customs, and the dwarves must save the day. Funny adventures of a family of tiny men and their incomparable mouse.

"It's Christmas Eve outside. Fluffy white snow lies motionless on the fir trees and rooftops. And the local gnomes are waiting for the owners of the house to present them with a plate of delicious Christmas porridge! But then the unexpected happens…” Publisher: Albus Corvus. White Crow, 2015
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Anu Shtoner "Little Santa Claus" A whole series of 4 books by a Finnish writer, all of them are serialized, in addition, they were illustrated by one artist and translated by one translator. But each story stands on its own. Artist Henrika Wilson and illustrations are perhaps the most valuable thing in books about Little Santa Claus. They very "eloquently" complement and reinforce verbal images. It turns out that there are many Santa Clauses in the world. And among them there is a small one. That is, Santa Claus is a child. Or, more precisely, Santa Claus is like a child - with all the feelings and resentments inherent in a child, although outwardly he differs from adults only in size. In all other respects, he is their exact copy - he has the same clothes, boots, and even a beard. But the beard is not as a sign of old age, but as a “mandatory attribute” associated with “snowiness” and symbolizing involvement in winter.

A book that tells that even the smallest (and not only Santa Claus) can do a lot. The main thing is kindness, to believe in yourself and not despair, then you will find your place in life and bring a lot of goodness and happiness.
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2. "Little Santa Claus is going to the city." In this book, Little Santa Claus, who is in charge of gifts for forest animals, receives many letters from the animals of the city, who also want to receive New Year's gifts. Big Santa Clauses refuse to take gifts for the animals to the city, because they can hardly cope with the kids. The way to the city is not close and difficult, but the forest animals help Little Santa Claus. And, of course, the animals from the city will receive their gifts!
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3. "Little Santa Claus travels around the world." This is a fabulous story about how Little Santa Claus, together with his friends, forest animals, gave all the children New Year's gifts overnight. And all because Big Santa Clauses fell ill on the eve of the new year because they did not get vaccinated on time. Traveling around the world lasted all night, and Little Santa Claus visited small villages and big cities.
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4. "Little Santa Claus is growing up." In the pre-New Year's fuss, Little Santa Claus found that he had run out of powdered sugar. And he decided to ask Santa Claus, who lives nearby, for her. Going out into the street, Little Santa Claus saw that the whole village was empty and only the lights were on in the windows of the house of the Chief Santa Claus. Everyone gathered there and did not call only him. And Little Santa Claus, forgetting about the cookies, sadly walked out of the village and did not notice how he ended up at the edge of the forest. His forest friends decided to stand up for Little Santa Claus. Arriving in the village, they will find out why they did not call Little Santa Claus. Turns out, chief grandfather Frost goes to rest and leaves Little Santa Claus in his place.
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Deutsch author and artist Valko. "New Year's Eve". The story of how unexpectedly, on the eve of the New Year, a snow landslide occurred, which destroyed the house of Jacob the hare. And all the animals had to build a needle for him! And then adventures began, just before the New Year, the animals saved the real Santa Claus, and, of course, various miracles followed this. The fact that Santa Claus himself was a guest on New Year's Eve, the animals guessed at the very end of the story. But the attentive reader will understand this much earlier. Publisher: Makhaon Series: New Year
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Another illustrated New Year's fairy tale by Valko "The Lost Christmas Letter". The Hare and the Bear saw a letter to Santa Claus from a sick groundhog, he asked Santa Claus to visit him. They felt sorry for him and went to catch up with Santa Claus in order to give the letter that was lost by accident. We walked and walked ... and saw Santa Claus, who left, having previously visited someone's house. The house turned out to be the groundhog's house, and Santa Claus knew about the letter, he just wanted his friends to come to visit the groundhog and celebrate the holiday together.
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Author and illustrator Luke Koopmans(Netherlands). "Winter Tales". Set of 3 books:
"Little Christmas Tree": a story about how a little Christmas tree was unhappy with her needles, she kept dreaming, now of gold, then of crystal, then of soft green leaves. And each time her wishes were fulfilled, but the result was disastrous: the golden leaves were stolen, the crystal ones were broken, and the soft and green ones were eaten by goats. And in the end, the Christmas tree became itself and realized that this is the best thing that can be!

"Snail, bee and frog looking for snow": in the spring, the snail learns from the bird about the past winter, how cold and snowy it was. But the bird flew away, and the snail remained at a loss, she had never seen either winter or snow. The snail tried to find out about this from her friends - bees and frogs, but they also did not know anything. And then they went in search of snow!

The Mitten is a classic folk tale. Wonderful and kind books for the soul, which are pleasant to hold in hands, pleasant to look at, and also to read such kind gentle tales. Publisher: Dobraya kniga 2013
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You can also buy each book separately.

Kate Westerlund is a famous American children's writer, doctor of education and humanities."My dear snowman." Co-author and illustrator: Eva Tarle- very delicate watercolor drawings. Another story about how real miracles happen on Christmas and wishes come true. In the new year, we always expect miracles. And even falling snow seems magical to us. And if the snowman takes off his hat, then something extraordinary will definitely happen! And it is not surprising that a miracle happened to a little girl who did not expect this at all and who dreamed that the snow cat would become real. Publisher: Klever-Media-Group, 2011

Another winter fairy tale by the same pair of authors - "The Winter Tale of a Deer" - is a very kind, warm and tender story about forest animals who wanted a holiday in a hungry and cold time for them. On New Year's Eve, we all believe in miracles! So the little animals waited that even in such a cold and snowy winter they will be able to have a fun New Year's Eve. The heart of the little deer Alice burned with the greatest hopes, and it was she who awakened in other animals faith in a miracle and a holiday. This story creates in the soul of everyone the feeling of an approaching holiday, makes you believe in a fairy tale and never lose hope for a miracle. Publisher: Klever-Media-Group, 2011
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Genevieve Yurier "New Year's Book of Rabbit Stories". One of the stories from the series “Once upon a time there were rabbits”, in which restless rabbits ride a sled down a hill, Rosemary the rabbit danced in the snow, and Russula went to the ball. This book is a wonderful Christmas gift for kids. Illustrator: Loic Joannigo. Publisher: Machaon, Azbuka-Attikus Series: Once upon a time there were rabbits.. 2014
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Written and Illustrated by Rob Scotton. "Happy New Year, Shmyak!" Continuation funny stories(fourth) about the kitten Shmyak. This is a fabulous story about the approach of the New Year. Kitten Shmyak is really looking forward to a gift from Santa Claus and is terribly worried. What if he didn't behave well enough during the year and didn't deserve a gift? And Shmyak decides from now on to be very, very good ... Stories about Shmyak's kitten are suitable for reading to children from three years old. Publisher: Klever-Media-Group Series: Picture book 2014
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Daniel Piculi - a well-known French writer, an economist by education, wrote a series of stories about a cheerful and courageous turtle named Lulu Toropyzhka, who often does rash acts and never refuses to help others and always tries to correct her mistakes. The illustrator and co-author of the series, Frédéric Piyo, is a well-known French illustrator of literature for children and adolescents, as well as comics. Publisher: Polyandria Print, Serie: Lulu Toropyzhka

"Lulu and Christmas tree» . In this book, we find our heroes in sorrow. The New Year is approaching, and this is bad news: a woodcutter armed with a long saw comes into the forest and begins to cut down fir trees one by one until there is only one left ... Lulu decides to save her!
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Ian Falconer Olivia Celebrates the New Year. A book from a series about pig Olivia, in which there are beautiful illustrations by the author, for little inventors and their parents. Absolutely unique design characters and recognizable situations have made the books about Olivia's adventures a successful project on book market recent years. Neither adults nor children can resist the charm of this mischievous girl. In the stories about Olivia, you can find everything that is inherent in children - the desire to be older and childish spontaneity, a cheerful character and unwillingness to obey elders. Olivia is developing a flurry of activity in preparation for the New Year. She is really looking forward to Santa Claus, and tries to take part in everything - decorate the Christmas tree, help her mother cover festive table. As always, she has a lot of interesting things to do - learn and sing a song about a Christmas tree, go skiing, make a snowman.
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Author and artist Judith Kerr. "Happy New Year, Meowli!" Thanks to the illustrations, this Christmas book is suitable for both the youngest and older children. Usually children are very partial to cats, many have real pets at home. The story is just about a pet, how a cat perceives ordinary phenomena for us, how it reacts to preparations for the holiday, getting on the roof at the same time, and how the situation is resolved. There is a whole series of Kerr books about Meowli.
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Markus Mayaluoma "Dad, when will Santa Claus come?" Who said there is only one Santa Claus? No, the real one, of course, is one - the only one, but he can be delayed due to a snowstorm on the road, then .... Then dad Pentti Rozoholmainen and neighbor Trubkel are simply obliged to take everything into their own hands, because Ossi, Veino and Anna-Marie are waiting for Christmas and gifts, and what is Christmas without Santa Claus ?!
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M. Mokienko "How Baba Yagi Celebrated the New Year." There are a lot in the book actors. Firstly - 3 Baba Yaga - Senior, Middle and Younger. it positive heroines who only do good. Secondly, Koschei and famously one-eyed. It's drastic negative characters. Then there is Grandmother in the book - Zabavushka, who twisted this story in order to write a book about her. Of course, in the book there is Santa Claus, who suffered from Koshchei. Then there is a family - dad, mom and their son Timosha, who really wants the real Santa Claus to come to him for the New Year and bring an airplane.
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Collection "In the footsteps of Santa Claus" - translations. The book contains fairy tales of foreign writers on the New Year's theme, twelve wonderful New Year's stories - one for each month of the year. The kid will get acquainted with the sorceress Rata Mosh, a funny white donkey and Father Frost's gnomes. Here is another story about a small Christmas tree that was uprooted and thrown away as useless, and the boy picked it up and planted it in the ground. And by the next New Year, a real winter beauty grew up next to his house - a Christmas tree! There is a story about a little sparrow that lost all its feathers. He was very worried, but his friends asked Santa Claus for help, and the sparrow received a gift - a fur coat made of white feathers. And about the mother bear who wanted to make New Year's celebration for your cubs!
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Mauri Kunnas, Tarja Kunnas"Visiting Santa Claus" " Here comes the real autumn. Somewhere the first snow is already falling. And that means Christmas is just around the corner! Maybe you think it's too early to think about it? Good for you! Christmas is easy for you joyful holiday, and for someone - not only joy, but also a long, responsible job. That "someone" is, of course, Santa Claus. He lives far to the north, in Lapland, in a small village near Mount Korvatunturi. There is everything that the main organizer of the holiday needs: comfortable housing, workshops, saunas, and even an airfield. Hundreds of Christmas gnomes live here - faithful helpers of Santa Claus. They run the household, herd deer, sort mail, make Christmas presents, and in their free time they go fishing, go mountain hiking, sing songs and have fun at all costs. Dwarf children go to school. Their favorite subject is zoology, and the most important are geography and labor. A real Christmas gnome should know perfectly well where is which country and where is which city. After all, on the eve of Christmas, gnomes help Santa Claus deliver gifts to children around the world!”
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Quite a few New Year's fairy tales written by modern Internet authors, for example, on the Lib.ru website, the Samizdat magazine can be read:
Antonina Lukyanova "Why the snow is white".
fairy tale Kozhushner Tatiana"The Tale of Santa Claus and His Friends",
a few tales Usacheva Svetlana Fairy tales told on New Year's Eve (Rug, New Year for the Ladybug, How the Mouse was looking for the New Year, The Most Expensive). You can probably find others here.

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Every year, many different collections are published for the New Year (including in audio format). But they mainly include those fairy tales (stories, novels) that are collected in this review. Collections are supplemented with poems, songs, riddles, sometimes even crafts and coloring books. These books are illustrated by all the new artists. So no matter how many New Year's books there are in your library, every year you can find a new one. And if something is not in your library, then you can find it on the net, in the public library or from friends and acquaintances. There are many variants of lists of New Year and Christmas books on the net, a significant part of the books from these lists are given in this review, without, of course, claiming to be comprehensive. We have not specifically indicated for what age this or that book is suitable. different kids, different training, different perception. But, of course, if the fairy tale is new to you too, you will first read it yourself to decide if it is suitable for your child. Happy New Year's Reading!

One day, all the inhabitants of the fairy forest quarreled greatly and decided never to communicate with each other again. No one remembered exactly how the conflict began, but everyone was very stubborn and proud. The accumulated grievances did not allow them to take the first step, and the animals were bored in solitude. But still, this is a fairy tale about the New Year, so let's not talk about the bad.
The holidays were approaching forest dwellers remembered last year's cheerful New Year's Eve and thought how to celebrate such an important event this year. After all, no one was going to reconcile. As a result, everyone decided to celebrate the New Year on their own.

Closer to the 31st, the first difficulties began. The squirrel decorated the Christmas tree with cones and nuts, but could not think of anything with the lighting. “Nothing, it’s also very beautiful,” she thought, and became sad.
Bunny had another problem - he found beautiful garland and already imagined festive New Year's lights, but he just couldn’t reach the Christmas tree, because he was too short.
Lisa cooked a lot festive dishes, decorated a small but neat pine tree and was about to celebrate, when she suddenly remembered that she couldn’t sing at all. New Year without songs did not fit in her head, and it was main occasion for disorder.
The wolf did not understand aesthetics, and even more so did not know how to cook. The lack of festive mood, food and Christmas trees made him gloomy and angry. And the Little Bear, having realistically assessed the situation, decided that sleeping through the New Year was a pretty decent idea.
And a similar situation happened in every house of the fairy forest. The new year was sad and boring. This is where our fairy tale would have ended, if not for the New Year's Magic.

A fairy tale about the New Year for children: why there is strength in unity

The animals seem to have come to terms with their situation and did not expect anything good and interesting. But on New Year's Eve, they wanted to feel the festive magic. Everyone remembered how beautiful and wonderful it was last year to have fun together near the largest Christmas tree in the forest. For some reason, they decided that the New Year's magic was connected with this place and hurried there.
Quite a bit of time passed, and the whole forest company gathered near a large fluffy spruce. Seeing each other, they wanted to talk, ask about business, but remembered the quarrel. The animals suddenly became very ashamed. How can you be so stubborn and proud? How can you hold so much resentment in yourself? They understood each other without words and embraced tightly. The world no longer seemed so dull, but without New Year's lights, songs and fun, it was very sad.

“How stupid we were. After all, we ruined our own holiday. There is very little time left for the New Year, we won’t have time to really prepare,” the animals cried. At that moment, it seemed that no one could change the situation.
"Stop slacking off!" Suddenly, a loud, hoarse voice rang out. It was Little Bear, who was awakened by a noise near a large spruce. “We came together, and this is the main thing, because strength is in unity. Let's quickly decorate the Christmas tree as best we can, bring our own food and sing songs. Let the holiday not be so beautiful, but still we can make it fun. Is not it?" he continued.
The animals agreed, smiled and ran home. This time for toys, candies, nuts and garlands. No one else was sad, everyone was in a hurry to be in time for the New Year.

What was their surprise when they returned and saw a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, Christmas lights, a snowman, multi-colored light bulbs on other trees and a lot of sweets on the table, which appeared as suddenly as everything else. New Year's Magic came to the animals and gave real holiday which they deserve. After all, they understood the main thing! Remember the moral of this fairy tale about the New Year - do not accumulate your grievances, learn to forgive others and do not be afraid to take the first step. Only together with friends can you find happiness and meet magic.

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