The first book from the series "The Northern Library of the Schoolboy" introduces the works of oral poetry of the indigenous peoples of the North and the Far East: legends and traditions that embodied the oldest ideas of the northern peoples about the universe; traditionally beloved genre - fairy tales about animals, household, magical in all the variety and richness of themes, plots, fantasies; with the pinnacle of oral and poetic creativity - the heroic epic of the Nenets, Mansi, Evenks, Ents and other peoples.