For children aged 8 to 12 years: a book for clever people and future discoverers, for future geniuses and their parents. A book for anyone learning to overcome life's obstacles. The famous Ukrainian writer Stepan Protsyuk with his inherent enthusiasm and passion tells how "between the Kurmi and the stars" the childhood of the unsurpassed novelist Vasily Stefanik passed; in which the bottomless well of dreams was immersed every night by the future psychiatrist and philosopher Karl-Gustav Jung; how famously the writer and first head of the Ukrainian Government Vladimir Vinnichenko knew how to brawl as a boy; how one of the most conditional artists of the early twentieth century, Arkhip Teslenko, outgrew his own fate; finally, how "childish" the childhood of the Russian poetess Nika Turbina turned out to be.