German writer Paul Maar (born 1937), laureate of the German Prize for Children’s Literature, the Austrian state prize, the German National Literary Prize, and many others, is a real wizard and a sorcerer of words—well known to Russian readers as the author of wonderful books about Subastik.
The hero of his new book, Max, is a sweet German boy who lives with his father, an apothecary, and dreams of having a dog. One day father and son receive a gift from a strange old woman—a bottle with an unusual liquid, whose properties they know nothing about at first.
Magic adventures, wonderful transformations, and—most bizarrely executed—wishes fulfilled… and it all happens today in an ordinary quiet German town.