The book includes selected poems and fables. The poet introduces the reader into the world of fun children's games, interests, worries and fantasies, draws characters "positive" and "negative." The satirical line, begun in verses for children, Mikhalkov continues in fables. Imbued with high civil pathos, fables denounce pleasure, swagger, bureaucracy, philistine vulgarity, ignorance - everything that interferes with the movement of our people forward, the creation of a new, truly human society.