The Little Waterman

8 hrs. 13 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Otfried Preussler

Narrator Lyudmila Shchepalina

Description

Several fairy tales by the well-known German children’s writer Otfried Preußler.
Herbie — The Big Hat (novella, translation by E. Ivanova, L. Yakhnina): One day, in a wonderful day of late summer, the gnome Hörbe decides to go for a walk. Not just to stroll, but to go on a journey! This earns the collective disapproval of hardworking neighbors, who believe that every well-mannered gnome should work on weekdays, and that a journey is dangerous too—not least because one might wander into the Far Forest, where, as everyone knows, lives the terrifying Plumpacher. But our hero isn’t scared, because he doesn’t plan to go that far. However, His Majesty Chance gets involved, and while escaping from greedy ants, Hörbe ends up… right in the Far Forest! And what happened next, you’ll find out by reading the fairy tale yourself!
Gnome Hörbe and the Elfin Forest Spirit (novella, translation by E. Ivanova, L. Yakhnina): A continuation of the story begun in the book "Gnome Hörbe and the Big Hat," in which the main character meets the funny forest spirit Zwo(t)t(t)el.
Now the friends live together despite certain inconveniences the “wild,” voracious forest spirit causes the kind-hearted gnome. After all, Zwo(t)t(t)el is completely unfamiliar with “civilization,” and even calls a spoon a “zagogulin(a).” And his friend still has a lot to teach him.
Little Aunt Ya-ga (novella, translation by Yu. Korinets) — a book about the adventures of a small, kind Baba Yaga who taught her older sisters a lesson, showing that evil is not all-powerful.
Little Water Sprite (novella, translation by Yu. Korinets): Oh, what a little green Water Sprite! What, scared? Do you know why children who read fairy tales by the German writer Otfried Preußler are never afraid of anything? It’s because those dreadful, dreadfully awful Baba Yagas, water spirits, and ghosts live only in books of fairy tales! And reading them is fun and interesting.
The Little Ghost (novella, translation by Yu. Korinets, N. Burlova): The story of a Little Ghost living in the attic of an old castle—who one day becomes very eager to see what the world looks like in daylight.