Frankly, I am very happy about the release of this book. I have loved Elena Axelrod's poems - both for children and for adults - for a long time, and this children's book, which seems to have absorbed almost everything written by the poetess for children, brings back to us her name, somewhat forgotten not so much by readers as by publishers. E. Axelrod's first children's book - "Vanka-Vstanka and Sanka-Spanka" - was published by the long-standing publishing house "Children's World" in 1961. Since then, she has published many books in the Moscow publishing houses “Children’s Literature” and “Malysh”, then she left for Israel, and today’s full return of the “children’s” Axelrod seems to me very significant.
Let me quote a few words from my afterword to Samokat’s book: “Smart and gentle intonation is characteristic of many of Elena Axelrod’s children’s poems. These poems seem to be unpretentious, and the world of childhood in them is traditional, calm and familiar. You need to have truly poetic vision in order to isolate the main thing in it, and this main thing, as often happens, is what eludes the eye, and only the gaze of a curious child (or rather, the gaze of a poet, which he bestows on the child) is able to dwell on this a hidden secret for the time being...

These poems will learn on their own! The best contemporary children's poets

Marshak, Chukovsky and Agnia Barto are, of course, the three pillars on which our childhood stood and jumped, and our grandchildren will not escape them. But the child does not live by the clicking sound alone!

He has a lot of wonderful contemporaries who write amazing poems for kids from two to ninety-two. Envy! Better yet, read it with your descendants. The positive result will be two, no, a hundred times more!

Masha Rupasova

“I live in a small town on the Pacific coast, write poetry and fairy tales, and watch my child grow up. A child is a window to a new dimension, and I spend a lot of time at this window.”

Yes, Masha Rupasova’s Facebook stories about her son Maxon, the main tester of her work, and the various experiences of a great soul are a separate and constant pleasure.

***
Mom is at home?
Mom is gone.
Mom left.
In Internet.
Mom is looking
In the Internet,
How are you
In the white world.
Drinks coffee
Leads with his eyes -
What's out there in the world
Happening?
Mom, I'll tell you!
In the world I come from!

Vadim Levin

“I was lucky when I was born. This happened a very long time ago - in 1933... As a child, I had many wonderful books with kind, smart and funny poems. I memorized these poems, played with them... and tried to compose my own. I tried, tried, tried and got used to it.”

Levin is an ex-Kharkov resident, now a citizen of Marburg, a living classic, author of the immortal “Stupid Horse” and more.

Poems with Dragon

In my poems in the morning
One Dragon wandered
Said: “It’s high time!” –
And swallowed the balcony.
Slept for half a day, yawned
And he announced: “Lunch.”
He stood up and ate the chair,
Buffet and office.
I don't know what Dragon is
Eats at the end of the day...
What if he comes for dinner?
Will you include Me in the menu?
Imposing your taste
I won't fight the dragon
And I'm afraid to say
That I am a bad dish.
Of course he can
What does he want to eat for dinner?
But I'm such a Dragon
Not needed in my poems.

Andrey Usachev

“At first I wanted to be a traveler, then I wanted to be a geologist, then a musician, and in the end I became a writer. Not every writer knows right away that he will become a writer. Tolstoy, for example, was first a military man..."

And Usachev is also a playwright and screenwriter. Remember “The Smart Dog Sonya”? It was he who came up with it. Because instead of his daughter Sonya, his son Misha was born - so such a good name could not be lost!..

Three brothers
Three acrobat brothers
One day we went to the park:
One with an umbrella
The other one is with a cat,
And the third - just like that.
Suddenly it began to rain...
Hurry under the umbrella!
But there is little use in:
The three of us can’t fit under the umbrella,
Especially with a cat.
And yet brothers in the rain
Came home dry:
One with an umbrella
The other one is with a cat,
And the third - with the rest!

Arthur Givargizov

“As I remember now: “Givargizov, so that by the next lesson the essay about summer will be on my table!” Well, in the next lesson, of course, a broken pointer, a cry: “In what Hades?!” What other brother of Zeus?! Get out!" In general, right in the school corridor, I felt like a great writer. Then, however, he went out into the street and very quickly ran to Kolomenskoye for a walk. And I felt like a great runner...”

It’s easy to recognize Givargizov’s poetry: if at first you laugh loudly, and then, puffing away, mutter: “What a hooligan, and also such a big guy...” - that’s definitely him!

Unusual
“Why are you, Seryozha, in a bad mood today?” –
Two flies asked, biting Seryozha.
“He was exhausted from the intense heat,”
They said mosquitoes biting him.
“Come on, smile and dry your tears,”
They said, leeches and wasps bite.
“It’s unusual for us, he was always cheerful,” -
They said, biting, dogs and bees.
“Or maybe he got sick and that’s why he’s sad?”
“Leave the boy alone, the main thing is that it’s delicious!”

Tim Sobakin

“When I felt that my poems might be published today or tomorrow, I thought about a pseudonym. But nothing worthwhile came to my mind. And then I saw a children's film on TV. There is a boy standing in front of the squadron, so thin... And the commander solemnly: “For the courage and heroism shown, I express my gratitude to Gregory... what’s your last name?” He replies: “Yes, we are Dogs...” And I immediately realized: this is mine.”

In fact, he is Andrei Ivanov - but just read his poetry and prose... And you will immediately exclaim: as he writes, Sobakin! He was also the editor-in-chief of the great and immortal magazine “Tram”.

Caterpillar Revelation
As soon as the moon
Framed by windows
He will enter as a voluntary prisoner,
I'm under the blanket
Like a quilted cocoon,
I crawl in like a nasty caterpillar.
And there I think
About something wise
Frozen with a cylindrical stick.
And it seems to me
What from the cocoon in the morning
I'll flutter out like a cute butterfly.
But the morning comes -
And the sun on the puddle
Through the cloud
It shines confused...
From the cocoon
I'm crawling out
Innocent people spoil plants.

Lyudmila Ulanova

“I live in Kazan, I work as a translator in a computer company. Most often I write for children and for those adults who do not want to part with childhood. But my main achievement is, of course, my daughter Sashka. By the way, she also sometimes tries her hand at poetry. She and I often play “rhymes” and “poems” - it’s a very fun activity, I recommend it to everyone!”

And we suspect that Mila Ulanova is actually a circus performer at heart. You admire how she manages to juggle words - and your heart is filled with pure white envy. Well, and more joy.

Household bug
The bug is puffing - he is dragging a dandelion,
To make a sofa out of it.
He carries a red pepper into his bag,
After all, it is empty - it will do as a wardrobe.
He will make shelves out of pine cones,
The table is made of stone, and the doors are made of wood chips.
Only with the chandelier the question is still unclear,
And Firefly stubbornly disagrees!
Friend, it's called...

Grigory Kruzhkov

“Perhaps the most vivid childhood experience of meeting poetry is associated with the time when I was sick with something, had a high fever. I was two years old, just a baby. My mother carried me around the room in her arms and, to calm me down, read: “The poet died, a slave of honor, fell by slandered rumors...”. That’s how it got into me from then on.”

Kruzhkov is simultaneously a physicist, a translator, a teacher, and a philosopher. And in his children's works there are no less paradoxes, irony and cheerful absurdity than in his favorite English classics, which he actively translated.

Rrrry!
Leo came out
From behind the mountain
And, after thinking,
Said:
- Rrrry!
Cockatoos flew up:
What did you mean?
Will I tear it apart and tear it apart?
Will I smash it and scatter it?
Will I scare everyone away?
Lev said:
– I’m just RRRAD!

Mikhail Yasnov

“As a child, I was sure that I would become a great, serious poet. Then translation, children’s poetry, essays, reviews, articles, history were added to the poems... The result was a centaur.”

Yasnov gave children's literature (that is, to us!) a huge number of translations from French - and as many as sixty books of his own poems for children.

***
I walked out the door this morning -
Spring was all around,
And a flock of soap bubbles
Flew from the window.
She flew this way and that,
And to the side, and into the distance, and in breadth,
And the leader flew ahead -
Such a big bubble.
First forward, then back,
And down and up again, -
But bubbles and bubbles
I couldn't put it together.
Alone, cheerful as in a dream,
Hanging on the wires
Another, climbing the wall,
He sat down on the ledge.
And the third, blinded by the sun,
Whistled: “Fa-mi-re-do...”
And flew to the old maple -
Probably to build a nest.

Peter Sinyavsky

“Sometimes I’m sitting in a restaurant or walking down the street, and suddenly something comes up. I wrote the book “Mushroom Train” for about forty minutes, and “Green Pharmacy” took seven years.”

Sinyavsky began writing poetry at the age of forty, but his first song at twenty-five. Before becoming a writer and poet, he was a musician. And now he performs his songs with a guitar. The audience sings along with pleasure!

Weird story
Met a beetle in one forest
A cute wasp.
- Oh, what a fashionista!
Allow me to meet you.
Dear passer-by,
Well, that's a hundred percent similar!
You have no idea
How sultry you are!
And the beautiful wasp
Flew off into the sky.
Strange citizen
Probably a foreigner.
Annoyance bug with pretzels
Running around the clearing.
- It had to be like that
Go crazy!
How not to end up again
In such a situation -
We urgently need to get married
In a foreign language.

Sergey Makhotin

“It often happens that some child wakes up in the morning in a bad mood. The slipper got stuck under the bed, I don’t feel like having breakfast, and I don’t even want to go to school. This happens to adults too: they don’t want to go to work at all. There is a wonderful recipe: you need to remember and read a small funny poem!”

Well, Makhotin’s own poems are very suitable for this noble goal. And when he writes adult prose, and when he edits an adult magazine, he correctly does not forget that “children's poems are the happiest occupation in the world”!

We are on duty
We've been here for an hour today
They cleaned out the new class.
A hundred toffee papers
A hundred bits and notes
We discovered it.
There were only three lessons
Not five
And not six.
How did we manage to do so much?
Write, read and eat?!

Vyacheslav Leikin

“THEY were already waiting, looking at me, silent. I told him my name, said how old I was, and added that as a child I also tried to write poetry, but nothing good came of it...”

So Leikin, in his book “Playing Poetry,” begins a story about the children’s literary studio, which he led - and which, thanks to him, from “Lenin’s Sparks” became “Leikin’s” - and raised many excellent poets. Reading the works of his students is sometimes no less fun than his own. What can be said better about a teacher?

Baraboshka
Baraboshka lived in the world,
Weighed twenty kilograms
I looked out the window all day,
At night he ran around the yards.
He chewed only the humpbacks
And I read only the covers,
And neither boyfriend nor girlfriend
Baraboshka didn’t have it.
Having obtained a piece of lard,
He lured a cat to visit,
A day later she ran away
Scratching Baraboshka.
He calls the bulldog to him -
The bulldog eats an awful lot
The turtle will be invited -
The turtle sleeps and sleeps.
Baraboshka is bored and sad
To live alone in the world;
Hides his head in his hands
And not a word to anyone.
Days fly, nights flash by,
And he doesn’t know, poor thing,
What lives opposite is very
Lonely Cheburashka.

Mikhail Veksler

“I came up with this definition for myself: “writer.” I even avoid the word “poetry.” Either I replace it with the word “texts,” or I call them—I came up with a word—“vekslerostishya.”

Odessa Veksler is the very talent whose closest relative is brevity. Any of his poems, both children's and non-children's, are remembered instantly - and are perfectly quoted at every step!

***
Walking my own path,
I eat pies with potatoes.
Then I go and think:
“Where am I going?”
***
I walked along the shore. I missed you.
He knocked on the clam's house.
"Welcome!" - I heard
But he didn't go in. And he didn't come out.
***
And with a dog's tongue,
And I am familiar with the cat:
I understand dogs and cats
Half woof, half meow.

Marina Boroditskaya

“I'm like a three-headed dragon. One head composes for children, the other writes completely adult lyrics, the third translates. A fourth head regularly grows, and then I broadcast on the radio. And I started writing my children’s work when my eldest son Andryusha was one and a half years old...”

Thanks to Marina's third head, we can communicate in Russian with Chaucer, Burns, Browning, Stevenson, Kipling, Milne, Carroll, Hugo... And thanks to the first, with her own sweetest and funniest characters.

Bear school
First of April,
On the first day of school,
The cubs are writing
Essays at school.
Topic posted
On a big pine tree:
“HOW I SLEEP MY VACATION
AND WHAT YOU SAW IN YOUR DREAM.”

Natalia Khrushcheva

“The area of ​​my research was the processes that take place in solids when irradiated with electrons. There was a kind of poetry in all this: “Maxwell’s demon”, “Ewald’s sphere”, “Brillouin’s zone”…”

After the birth of her daughter Nastya, a miracle happened: a serious physicist hit the ground and turned into a children's lyricist! In addition to the children's audience in general, the St. Petersburg Zazerkalye Theater, where Natalya is in charge of the literary department, was particularly lucky.

My dad is a scientist-philosopher
My dad is a scientist-philosopher,
He believes: teaching is light,
He asks a lot of questions
And looking for every answer.
Blowing smoke rings
Putting glasses on your nose,
“What can be indelible?” –
He once asked a question.
Here everyone thought a little
And he expressed his opinion:
I cheerfully shouted: “Cat!”
And mom sighed: “Underwear...”

Galina Dyadina

“So as not to waste / Useful words from the dictionary on myself, / I’ll just say about myself / Two modest words “Me” and “Be.”

This is the kind of modesty that adorns the author, who, already in three decades, has already become decorated with a carriage and a small cart of poems, in which a sea of ​​love for children splashes. Despite the fact that Galina is not only a mother twice, but also a school teacher by profession! :)

Ant
In the thick, thick, thick grass
One day an ant disappeared...
After all, he is not an elephant or a giraffe,
Just a little ant...
An ordinary mushroom is already a mountain
Compared to drip mura...
And even a leaf is too much
Big for a tiny mur...
And who will find mu... in the grass?
I give him a cow!

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Text: Yulia Sheket

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No one will deny that the peak of development of children's literature occurred during the Soviet Union. We all grew up on the poems of Chukovsky, Mikhalkov, Barto... If poetry “for adults” (in the good sense of the word) continues to develop - at least a couple of names of modern authors are known to almost everyone - then name some children's poems It’s unlikely that anyone will be able to describe modern Russian poets right away.

Nevertheless, there are still poets writing for children, but in most cases they are little known or unknown at all. In this collection we tried to combine all the interesting poems for children, found by us on the Internet. We hope you find it useful :)

Igor Tsarev

Puzzles

In a colorful coat, a tail in a ring,
At night he guards the porch.
Answer the question:
Who can bark? ...

* * *
Who has a Meek character,
Thick coat, short tail?
Who digs the underground grotto?
Who's afraid of the sun? ...

* * *
Who UNDERSTANDS boys?
Doesn't he take them off his back?
In a red velvet blanket
Takes kids for rides...

* * *
In a black body made of leather,
Looks like a big ship.
Fishermen along the fountain
Find out what it is...

* * *
People doubt:
Who lives in the pool there?
Spins the water like a wheel
Under the snag there is a thick...

* * *
Who is at the bottom of the river in the darkness
Always starting fights?
Whose claws is the enemy afraid of?
Who's walking backwards? ...

* * *
Rolls, turns,
Shoals and whirlpools.
Erasing the shores
The fast one is rushing...

* * *
Who has a wide back
PERCHED over the wave?
The path is very simple,
If there is a river...

* * *
What do we sometimes bully?
What do we wipe with a handkerchief?
Caulk and a little sniffle
Warmed up between my cheeks...

* * *
Who is standing in our dining room,
Propping up a bowl of porridge?
The hem is embroidered with lace.
Who got under the tablecloth? ...

Elena Ranneva

Mila helped my mother -
She set the table for dinner.
Even though the assistant is small,
She carried cups and saucers.
I stumbled at the threshold,
Cup - ding! - and suddenly it crashed...
Mom screamed: “Poor thing!
How did you break the cup?
“And so,” said Mila
And she dropped the other one.

Pocket

- Why did it break?
Do you have a pocket?
- Because he ate
Eraser and banana
A piece of glass, a coin,
Carnation and whistle.
Swallowed the candy
Chalk and boxes.
I would eat a tiger
He's probably
Just saw a tiger
It's in the book for now.
Yesterday I tried
Eat a drum.
Ate too much and burst
My greedy pocket!

Anastasia Orlova

We're crackling with the frost,
We are friends like brothers -
In winter, when
I go out for a walk
I breathe in the frost
And I warm him in my chest,
So that he becomes
At least a little warmer!

Yulia Simbirskaya

Can't sleep

The window is open.
Darkness. Silence.
Got lost in a cloud
Big moon.
And you can hear how loud it is
In the distant night
At the fast train
Heart is beating.

Mikhail Yasnov

Morning song

When I woke up, I shouted to my mother:
- Goodbye, my Pajamas!
Long live Tuflyandiya!..
And my mother answered me:
- According to the course - Switterland!
Hats - hello!
- Hurray for Big Paltonia!
Scarfancy - vivat!..
And if you don't understand,
It's not my fault!

Cup went out for a walk

One two three four five -
The cup went out for a walk.
A teapot flies past -
Fills a cup with tea:
- Bul-bull!..
Oh-oh-oh!
Need lump sugar!

One two three four five -
Sugar went out for a walk.
A spoon flies past -
Sugar in a cup dissolves:
- Ding-ding!..
Oh-oh-oh!
Need a painted gingerbread!

One two three four five -
Gingerbread went out for a walk.
The teeth are waiting nearby -
They play hide and seek with gingerbread:
- Crunch-crunch!..
Oh no no no!
Tea spilled all over the table!

One two three four five -
The rag went out for a walk.
The rag was fiddled with in the tea,
The rag snorted and got angry:
- One two three four five -
I don't want to play with you!

Hello, tail!

- Hello, tail!
How are you doing?

- Hello, make a face!
Don't bite us!..

This is what the puppy with the tail said -
And I still couldn’t catch him!

Igor Kalish

An eccentric was walking down the street,
He was wearing a green tailcoat.
He smiled at everyone passing by,
For no reason, just like that.

The sailors followed him
With a clear step, along the river,
And one kept stumbling,
Stepping on shoelaces.

Five old women followed them
And they fired from firecrackers,
I walked with them and kept laughing
Grandfather with a huge bunch of dry goods.

A sullen pedestrian walked
He muttered: -What kind of people?
And then he burst out laughing
And he waded through the puddles.

Vadim Smolyak

Crocodile sometimes early
I caught piranhas in the pond.
It was a crocodile thing,
Time passed quickly.
Sees a full bucket,
He grins slyly:
“Just right for my ears!”
That's the end of the story.

Marina Boroditskaya

Truant and Truant

Truant and Truant
Walked for the day:
We wandered together through the white light
And a blue shadow

Along the best of roads
Tried and old
And we passed the lesson
One and a half boulevards.

Truant and Truant
They couldn't part.
When the boulevards end
They entered the museum.

Hanging jackets on hooks,
In the Egyptian department
In plastic numbers
They put their fingers in each other.

This fall, “Portal Subculture” would like to tell lovers of modern poetry about the poems of modern poets of St. Petersburg, whose works are best suited not only for reading with a cup of hot tea on a cloudy day, but also for receiving true aesthetic pleasure.

Sofia Marishina

To many, stern-looking women seem unapproachable and cold inside. If you've ever met Sofia Marishina, then most likely you might have thought of her this way at first.

But true connoisseurs of poetry know that on the pages of his books the poet shows himself completely different from what we see in ordinary life; he literally bares his soul. This happens with the poems of Sofia Marishina. The reader discovers a stunning storyteller who is concerned with topics such as the fate of a woman, the mysteries of life and death and, of course, love. Akhmatova's severity of style and Tsvetaeva's expressiveness were combined in her poems in a unique unity, which gives modern lines a classical harmony. Complex emotional experiences give rise to vivid images that allow you to look deeper into the soul and experience and feel, together with the author, its pain and suffering, so understandable to many.

How painful it is to be a candle, but you have to be!
Exhausted in unspeakable torment,
I ruin my cry, and the fiery thread
Raises his melting hands to the sky.

How scary it is to burn out in the prime of life,
Not knowing where the road ends!
Because I wanted to make light...
Because I was the breath of God...

And there is no rest for me, I’m flying again,
Towards the darkness - with tired wings.
O Lord, bless the candle,
Giving birth to a flame in agony!

And for those who are attracted to stories about medieval knights and beautiful ladies, I think the work of Zinaida Konnan will find interesting. In the book of poems by this author, entitled “Ashes of the Rose,” almost every hero is a king, a jester or a duchess.

The variety and richness of historical images, historical exoticism, romantic motifs, as well as pictorial details and the use of vocabulary that transport the reader several centuries ago, make her works bright and unique. Reading her poems, you are immersed in the wonderful world of medieval chivalry, the images and motifs of which are intertwined with fairy-tale motifs and create a unique flavor, reminiscent of a complex floral pattern.

Song of the Little Countess

The spindle in my hand sings, -
Dance, my doll, dance.
The flame of fire is getting hotter,
The reeds rustle under the spinning wheel.

I must complete my lesson in the evening, -
The salvation of the soul is at work:
Spin a skein of thin threads from wool -
Dance, my doll, dance.

Winter would pass sooner... In spring
I'm going to be in my twelfth year,
And a beautiful knight will come to me,
And he will marry me.

On a white horse he will take me forever
He will fly away from his native home
To the land where the Big Water turns blue
And there is a stone castle.

Since then, nine moons will fly by, as if in a dream, -
Dance, my doll, dance, -
And I will be lucky enough to give birth to a son,
And the gifts will be good:

My mother-in-law will give me the key to her chest,
And the father-in-law is a golden agraph,
And the husband will be happy that it’s his in the castle
A small graph will appear.

But our neighbor Baron is formidable - and war
It will take a hundred lives with it.
At twelve a wife, and at fifteen a widow, -
This is the fate that awaits many.
But this is later, God knows what year, -
Dance, my doll, dance!
And now I diligently spin yarn
And I'm waiting for a dear knight.

There are many legends about this poet in St. Petersburg...

Some consider him strange because of the non-standard form of his poems, while others compare them to Gothic castles, majestically towering over the works of inexperienced poets. They remind us of futuristic experiments with the form and graphics of poems of the early twentieth century, including Mayakovsky’s “ladders” and Vasily Kamensky’s “reinforced concrete poems.” However, Alru's poems are much more poetic and understandable to the modern reader. What are they talking about? As always, about the eternal: about life and death, about love and hate... Everyone will find in his poems something of their own, close and understandable, experienced and not forgotten. It is precisely such poems that remain in people’s memory for many years.

Everything is ahead

Got me
To silent tears
Which no one will see -

I pushed my tears back into my eyes -

Their knocking on the pillow will not wake her up -

She
Loved me...

In dreams and in poetry -

And in reality
Will love you soon -

Happy times will come!

It's a pity,
What then
I won't be there anymore...

As you can see, today's poetry in St. Petersburg has many faces and many voices. In it you can find many similarities with the poetry of the early twentieth century, which in itself is not accidental: also the turn of the century, also a turning point. Today's poetry can be described in Borges's categories: “Babylonian library”, “garden of forking paths” - it is so diverse. This is what is now called the all-encompassing word Text. The text is varied and unpredictable, like life itself. That Text that M. Gasparov wrote about in “Records and Extracts,” quoting the famous scientist R. Timenchik: “If our life is not a text, then what is it?”

Poetry for children is a separate and very important genre of children's literature. It surrounds a child from the first days of his life: lullabies, songs, nurseries, jokes - these ancient genres seem to always exist within us, absorbed with mother’s milk.

Reading poetry out loud is especially important: rhymed lines set a special rhythm and teach a child from a very early age to feel the beauty of spoken speech and the poetic word.

Simple but expressive images of children's poetry reveal to the child all the beauty of the world around him. After all, good children's poets are loved by young readers precisely because they look at the world through their eyes. They notice the amazing properties of things that are familiar to us, which the child sees and learns for the first time in his life.

Of course, I would like to start introducing a child to poetry with the galaxy of our favorite authors: Korney Chukovsky, Samuil Marshak, Agnia Barto and others. We grew up reading these books, our mothers and grandmothers read them aloud and, of course, we also open treasured volumes and read such dear, familiar lines to our children.

We offer you the top 10 current poetry collections that will surely teach your child to love poetry. These books should be in every home!

1. The first place rightfully goes to the duet of Julia Donaldson and her permanent translator Marina Boroditskaya, decorated with wonderful illustrations by Axel Scheffler. Each of Donaldson's poetic tales becomes a hit, but, perhaps, children and parents love “The Gruffalo” the most.
2. Since childhood, Vadim Levin dreamed of translating old English ballads, but, alas, all of them have already been translated by Marshak, Chukovsky and other wonderful authors. But the poet was not at a loss and, without waiting for new ancient ballads, wrote his “English” poems. His "Silly Horse" is the best thing you can read since "Songs of Mother Goose."
3. Marina Boroditskaya not only masterfully translates Julia Donaldson and other famous authors, but also writes beautiful children's poems herself. In the collection “Moon Hare” they are collected for every taste and occasion: for girls, for boys, for parents and even for grandmothers.
4. The touching poem “The Dancing Giraffe” was written by the poetic heir of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, Andre Giles. And it was published by the Pink Giraffe publishing house, thus creating a wonderful rhyme-coincidence.
5. The poet Mikhail Yasnov needs no introduction. His playful poems appeal to both adults and children alike. The book “The Scarecrow-Meow” is dedicated to cats, cats and kittens.
6. Andrei Smetanin writes poetry “on the topic of the day.” Either in a humorous manner he warns children against dangers, or he creates a gallery of hilarious children’s portraits in the collection “Where does a quarrel begin?”
7. Andrey Usachev is the author of numerous books and collections. Some people especially like his lullabies, others enjoy his funny alphabet books. And for the first acquaintance with him, the collection “Such a Great Gift!”
8. The young poetess Galina Dyadina wrote “The Book in the Vest,” a collection of poems about the sea, arranged in alphabetical order. Excellent reading before the holidays or on a seaside holiday.
9. “What does the horse want?” is a collection of poems by Viktor Lunin, an excellent children's poet and winner of the H.H. Andersen Prize.
10. Peter Sinyavsky writes laconic and mischievous poems for the little ones, boldly plays with words and sounds, encouraging children's word creativity. You can get acquainted with his work by reading the book “Reverse Sandwich”.

On almost every poetry collection, publishers write the cherished phrase “For reading by adults to children.” Indeed, reading poetry together is simply necessary for every family! And it’s easy to turn the bright and unusual works of modern poets into real home performances, telling them by role and in different voices, accompanying the reading with various special effects that emphasize the author’s idea.

It is also very useful to learn poetry by heart. Firstly, it develops memory and enriches the child’s speech. Secondly, this is a sure way to please your grandmother and amaze everyone at a party in a kindergarten or at a reading competition. Competitions such as “Children Read Poems: Spring and Spring Festivals” are a great way for all talented and artistic people to show themselves and compete for prizes.

Unusual and bright poems by Yasnov, Levin or Donaldson compare favorably with the classical repertoire of children's matinees. And it is also very important that they talk about current children’s problems and experiences. And most importantly, the more good poetry you read with your child, the richer and more interesting his perception of the world becomes.

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