Russian fairy tales

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Dunno, Father Frost (fairy tale), Foolish Emilyan and the Talking Fish, Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What, Ivan the Fool (story), Ruslan and Ludmila, Skazka, The Armless Maiden, The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life, The Death of Koschei the Deathless, The Feather of Finist the Falcon, The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, The Golden Slipper, The Hairy Man, The Language of the Birds, The Lute Player, The Magic Swan Geese, The Princess Who Never Smiled, The Scarlet Flower, The Tale of Peter and Fevronia, The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights, The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The White Duck, The Wicked Sisters, The Wise Little Girl, The Witch (fairy tale), The Wonderful Birch, Three Fat Men, To Your Good Health!, Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter, Yeruslan Lazarevich. Excerpt: Dunno, or Know-Nothing (Russian: , Neznayka; from the Russian phrase "", don't know) is a hero created by Soviet children's writer Nikolay Nosov. Dunno, recognized by his bright blue hat, canary-yellow trousers, orange shirt, and green tie, is the title character of Nosov's world-famous trilogy, The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends (1954), Dunno in Sun City (1958), and Dunno on the Moon (1966). There have been several movie adaptations of the books. His names were translated differently in various languages: in Albanian: , in Chinese: , in Arabic "¿¿¿¿¿¿", in Bengali as "Anari", in Latvian: , in Lithuanian: , in Ukrainian: , in Spanish: , in German: , in Czech: , in Slovak: , in Romanian: , in Hungarian: , in Hindi: and in Vietnamese: . The three fairy tale novels follow the adventures of the little fictional childlike people living in "Flower City". They are described to be sized like "medium cucumbers", a quality that has earned them the name "shorties" or "mites". All fruits and vegetables growing in Flower City are, however, their regular size, so the Shorties invent sophisticated methods of growing and harvesting them. In Nosov's universe, each shorty occupies his/her own niche in the community and is named accordingly. The illustration for The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends. Postal card, Russia, 2008.In Flower Town, Dunno gets into heaps of trouble. First, he becomes convinced that the sun is falling and manages to scare half the town before Doono, Dunno's brainy antithesis (his name is derived from the Russian "", I know) clears everything up. Then he proceeds to try music, art, and poetry, but his unorthodox endeavors only irritate his friends, and he is forced to quit. Next, ignoring the warnings of Swifty, Dunno crashes Bendum and Twistum's car into the Cucumber River and ends up in the hospital. He then gets into a fight with his best friend Gunky for not ending his friendships with the girl-shorties Pee-Wee and Tinkle. Doono proposes to build a h