The Wizard of Oz

Knigami Aleksandra Melent'yevicha Volkova, napisannymi v seredine proshlogo veka, zachityvalis' deti neskol'kikh pokoleniy. No iv nashe vremya istorii o smeloy devochke Elli i yeye druz'yakh, kotoryye otpravilis' k velikomu volshebniku Gudvinu, chtoby on ispolnil ikh samyye zavetnyye zhelaniya, chitayutsya na odnom dykhanii. Volkov ne prosto talantlivo perelozhil dlya russkikh detey syuzhet amerikanskogo pisatelya Frenka Bauma, no podaril svoim malen'kim chitatelyam mnozhestvo novykh priklyucheniy lyubimykh geroyev – Elli i Totoshki, Strashily, Zheleznogo Drovoseka i L'va.