Italian writer Gianni Rodari is well known to millions of Soviet readers as the author of funny children's fairy tales. "Grammar of Fantasy" is not directly addressed to children, although it is ultimately written for them. The main content of the book is made up of issues of versatile education of the child, the formation of his unique personality. The author is especially interested in the problem of the development of creative principles in children, in particular the "phenomenon" of fantasy. A number of chapters are devoted to analyzing the structure of a fairy tale and various ways to create it.