Here is an anthology of short humorous prose about the life of schoolchildren from the best domestic authors of our time. The collection "A Call for a Teacher, or the Forest of Hands" includes stories by such popular writers as Narine Abgaryan, Alexander Tsypkin, Vera Gamayun, Nikolai Shchekotilov and Oksana Ivanova. The book for children and youth is equipped with funny illustrations by contemporary artists. Once a third-grader Sveta saw a lonely hippo named Zucchini at the zoo and wanted to become his guardian. But an adult hippo needs eighty-two kilograms of food a day, which is very expensive, and Sveta decides at all costs to get the right amount... Mishka did not immediately realize that he had fallen in love with his classmate Alice. It took him three academic years, summer holidays, two weeks of the first quarter and, oddly enough, a brand new student - a dylda named Lera. Sixth grader Batarekin leaves a rash review in Yandex about the gymnasium in which he studies: they say, not a school, but a living hell! Who knew that this comment would soon make so much noise...