The Cat's House

Long ago, back when Samuil Yakovlevich was still little himself and didn’t plan to write fairy tales, children, running along the street, sang a funny little song:
Tili-tili-tili-bom!
The cat’s house was on fire!
The cat ran out,
Eyes popping out.

And it was from these lines that a whole fairy tale was born. At first, though, it was short—only 5–6 pages. Then, about twenty years later, the second version of the play was written. And three years after that—the third. Samuil Yakovlevich wanted the fairy tale to be interesting, funny, and smart. Marshak very much disliked greedy, evil, stupid people. And he made fun of them in his fairy tale “The Cat’s House.”