The path of growing up is not simple and not fast, it has many difficult moments and crises. Fortunately, along the way, the children have an assistant - a carefully offered fairy tale "guide" to the distant kingdom - a world of changes and transformations, from where you return as a completely different person. In this book, Lyudmila Petranovskaya will talk about how fairy tales, legends and traditions help us grow up, learn how the world works and understand ourselves. The book consists of five parts - Lyudmila's essay on how exactly fairy tales familiar to all of us from childhood affect the process of forming basic life concepts: strength, talent, love, will and wisdom. After each essay, you'll find tales tailored to the essay's theme. Page by page, you'll reacquaint yourself with the fairy-tale heroes and their adventures, discovering the unexpected riches tucked away in "The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" with illustrations by I. Bilibin, in the tale of Charles Perrault "Puss in Boots" with illustrations by G. Dore, in a medieval legend "Tristan and Isolde" with graphics by W. Crane, in the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm "Zamarashka" with illustrations by A. Rackham and 11 more favorite fairy tales read to the holes.