Nikolai Nosov

Children's books, which were considered a luxury in many Soviet families, were sent in large amounts to kindergartens and libraries. The former Rumyantsev Library (now the Russian State Library) had a children's reading room, where children would often choose a book based on the pictures on the card index. Which of the 1960s' writers were especially popular among them?

A scrap metal collection drive is taking place at a school in Vilnius. This ambition, the same characters, the same place of action link all three novellas of "Merry Stories" - jokes, anecdotes.

An adventures of a young boy after taking a wrong turn on his road to home...

Funny adventures of two best friends Mishka and Kolya and their dog called Little Friend.

Barbos, a dog, lives in a leaky kennel, while Bobik, a pampered house pet, reluctantly carries out his grandfather's simple errands. One day, while Grandfather is away, Bobik invites Barbos to visit and begins to brag uncontrollably.

Mechanics assemble a vacuum cleaner, but how to use it?

Two inseparable friends, Vitya Maleev and Kostya Shishkin, cause a lot of grief for the pioneer group: their diaries are constantly filled with failing grades. The friends are too preoccupied with soccer. Only dusk forces them to leave the sports field. Vitya Maleev's mother takes away her son's football, but the friends invent new entertainments, and the number of failing grades in their diaries grows alarmingly. Kostya Shishkin, under the pretext of "illness," stops attending school altogether. Based on the story by Nikolai Nosov.

The sassy shorty thinks studying is a waste of time.

To surprise his grandmother, the boy climbs into someone else's garden.

Unsuccessful hunter flees from predators in the winter forest. Hand-drawn cartoon based on the story of Nikolai Nosov.

A group of children are constantly fantasizing about various things - and at the end start to believe in their own fantasies.