A fairy tale cannot be replaced by anything. Children need fairy tales. A fairy tale is a multifaceted and all-encompassing force that helps develop a child’s inner world, the basics of behavior and communication, fantasy and imagination, and creativity. Bedtime story is the most best tradition

put the child to bed. Accordingly, correctly selected works will help the child calm down, forget all the hustle and bustle of the past day, and so... Mom's gentle voice, soothing and lulling. The child can immerse himself in the calm flow of fantasies and dreams. When reading a bedtime story, it is important to choose the right time (the child must be calm and tune in to listening). You can start reading a bedtime story even when you are at a young age

After all, babies already know their mother’s voice, the sweetest sound on earth. The plots of the fairy tales themselves should be of a good nature and selected in accordance with the age of the child. For older children preschool age Long, long fairy tales are suitable (these children already know how to fantasize and imagine heroes). Children of middle preschool age like fairy tales in which the main characters are animals. Kids should read short fairy tales with a repeating plot (“Kolobok”, “Turnip”, “Teremok”). IN short fairy tales The plot develops quickly, so it is important to choose one so that the child can calm down and fall asleep sweetly before falling asleep. The mother herself can plan a bedtime story or ask the child to choose one, and don’t be upset if you’ve read this more than once. Re-reading

reading a fairy tale will allow you to better understand its meaning and in the end it will become uninteresting. A fairy tale is a kind of game, and to make the game more fun for adults, funny fairy tales for children come to the rescue. Funny fairy tales create a light atmosphere and clear accessible language convey to the child’s consciousness complex life situations

. Unobtrusively, the fairy tale presents such difficult-to-explain concepts as good and evil, courage and cowardice, friendship and betrayal, greed and generosity, etc. Based on funny and other various fairy tales, you can arrange homework with your children.. It will be both entertainment and development. Listening to a fairy tale or reading it independently, the child himself becomes a participant in the events, identifies himself with the characters, violently experiences the ongoing events in which they find himself, in a word, is transported to another, game reality. Being on the waves of a fairy tale in their ship, children boldly imagine, transfer the action beyond the boundaries of the book and, with the ease of real wizards, turn their room into the scene of any fairy tale. By trying on this or that character, the child learns the facets of human characters and, as it were, tests himself.

From the early childhood We get to know the characters of fairy tales and, plunging into a world of fantasy, we travel with them through a land of wonders and magic. Fairy tales have come to us from time immemorial and carry historical information, authentic folk culture, reveal the boundaries of imagination and dreams, encouraging creativity. Once upon a time, a very long time ago, a new thing appeared in Rus' folk art popular prints. These pictures most often depicted scenes from fairy tales and educational stories. This was the most popular type visual arts, because these simple pictures were closer and more understandable to ordinary village people. Many great artists were fascinated amazing world folk tale. V.M. Vasnetsov and Yu.A. Vasnetsov, I.Ya. Bilibin, M.A. Vrubel and these are not all the great talents who at one time created illustrations for fairy tales. Children, and many adults, perceive information better visually, which is why fairy tales for children with pictures are so popular.

Along with folk tales, children also like fairy tales foreign writers. Foreign fairy tales for children of such writers as H.H. Andersen, Charles Perot, Brothers Grimm, L. Carroll, A. Milne, etc.

Which adult does not know “Little Red Riding Hood” or “Puss in Boots” written by Charles Perot? And how can we forget the cheerful fidgety Pippi? Long stocking and Baby and Carlson by the Swedish writer A. Lindgren? And many other wonderful works uniting different people from different countries.

During times Soviet power For some time they fought against fairy tales, believing that children should not replace reality with fantasy and fiction. But still, writers K.I. Chukovsky, S.Ya. Marshak, S.V. Mikhalkov and many others, despite the prohibitions, wrote their soviet fairy tales for children.

Nowadays, the fairy tale has many faces and now our modern fairy tales for children is called variously “fantastic story”, “fantastic book” and simply Fantasy. Today's children have begun to perceive a fairy tale differently; a mother or grandmother reading a fairy tale has replaced audiobooks. Moms feel it too simpler than a fairy tale for children to read for free on special websites with a selection of fairy tales on various topics. Sometimes you realize that children simply don’t know fairy tales. Neither folk, nor copyright. Literary scholars are divided in opinion. On the one hand, they argue that the fairy tale has outlived its usefulness and it’s time to say goodbye to it. On the other hand, on the contrary, fairy-tale products are gaining increasing scope (books, CDs, films, related products)

What is the difference between a folk tale and an author's fairy tale for children? The folk tale was invented by the people and it was passed on from mouth to mouth, that is, no one knows who and when invented it. And here author's fairy tale for children has its ancestor, that is, the person who composed it - the Author. Sometimes the author bases his work on an old rewritten fairy tale, and in some cases the author's fairy tale is from beginning to end the imagination and talent of the writer. In general, author's fairy tales are a huge layer in the multifaceted world literature.

Folk tales for children at first glance are simple and uncomplicated, but according to some psychologists they are much more useful than original ones. Folk tales are full of wisdom and traditions of the people who wrote them. In them you can track, and therefore pass on to the next generation, mechanisms for solving problems that arise along the path of life.

Ukrainian fairy tales for children are a kind of chronicle of the traditions and life of the Ukrainian people. Ukrainian fairy tales reveal to us how and how these people live, their holidays, their way of life, what they had and what they didn’t have. Lives for a long time Ukrainian fairy tale, but it is still relevant and interesting.

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Fairy tales online

In this section of the site you can read children's fairy tales online completely free of charge and without registration. Just select the author of the fairy tale you want in the right menu and you can immerse yourself in a fascinating read about magical adventures fairy-tale heroes. All fairy tales on our website with colorful illustrations And summary, therefore, we recommend that you first read a summary of the fairy tale before reading it to your children at night. Fairy tales for children on our website are presented in the form alphabetical list to make it easier for you to find the right fairy tale and read it online. Reading fairy tales online is not only interesting, but also very useful - this activity perfectly develops a child’s imagination.

Children's fairy tales

Remember your childhood. Each of us loved bedtime stories as a child. At first, when we did not yet know how to read, our parents and grandparents did it for us, showing colorful illustrations in the book. When we learned to read on our own, we began to read ourselves interesting tales. On our website we have selected fairy tales for children of any age: from 2 years to the age until children stop believing in fairy tales)) Each author's or folk tale carries with it certain meaning, which was put into this fairy tale by the author or the people under the influence of the corresponding time.Fairy tales contain basic principles of morality. It is from fairy tales that a child begins to understand what is good and what is bad. He learns to empathize with the heroes, tries to imitate them, so correctly selected children's fairy tales will play important role in raising children.

Fairy tales are presented on our website best authors of all times and peoples. The list of author's fairy tales is constantly expanding and supplemented with new arrivals. In the right menu you can see a list of authors whose fairy tales are published on the site. If you don’t see the author you need there, use the site search.

Folk tales

A site for children collects and publishes folk tales with colorful illustrations and a summary. In the right menu you can see a list of folk tales that are presented on our website. This list is constantly being updated with interesting folk tales.

The best fairy tales

The most best fairy tales, which are in greatest demand among our readers, are placed in a separate block on the right. Materials with the highest ratings are placed there - the maximum number of views and the highest ratings from readers.

Fairy tale heroes

Each hero of a children's fairy tale can be classified into one of two types: good or bad. In almost every fairy tale there is a struggle between good and evil and, more often than not, good wins.

In addition, fairy tale heroes can be divided into the following categories:

Magical heroes (Kolobok, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, Kashchei the Immortal, Baba Yaga, Vodyanoy, Beast,Serpent-Gorynych, Dragon, Chippolino, Gulliver...)

Magical animals(Puss in Boots, Ryaba Hen, Fox, Bear, Cheshire Cat, Ugly Duckling, Golden Cockerel, Gray wolf, Crane, Traveling Frog...)

Social Heroes(princess, prince, king, queen, master, boyar, peasant, peasant...)

Representatives of professions(blacksmith, forester, swineherd, soldier, chimney sweep, priest, bishop...)

People different ages (grandmother, grandfather, granddaughter, Little Red Riding Hood, mother, father, brother, sister, groom, bride...)

Bogatyrs (Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich, Nikita Kozhemyaka, Ilya Muromets...)

Each fairy tale has its own atmosphere, characteristic of a certain people and era to which the author of the fairy tale belonged.

Free fairy tales

All fairy tales contained on our website are collected from open sources on the Internet and published on our website for informational purposes only. Any fairy tale can be read completely free of charge.

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They gave us a fairy tale! Illustrators who brought our favorite heroes to life. A guide to books, style, techniques and life stories.

Ivan Bilibin

Graphics master, creator special type illustrated book, “the first professional of the book” - as experts call him. His example is a science to others; many generations of not only illustrators, but also graphic designers sought inspiration in Bilibin’s work.

“The Frog Princess”, “Vasilisa the Beautiful”, “Marya Morevna”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” - it’s worth finding your favorite books from childhood on the shelf to be convinced - beauty!

Style. You can recognize Bilibin’s works from a large format thin notebook book with large color drawings. And the artist here is not just the author of the drawings, but also of all decorative elements books - covers, initials, fonts and ornamental decorations.

Elena Polenova

The Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve still houses books illustrated by Elena Polenova. The sister of the famous painter Vasily Polenov, although she was associated with the bohemian “Mamontov circle” - artists, artists, architects, was always interested in the folk, peasant. She was inspired by fairy tales; in her letters to friends, heroes of folklore are mentioned, for example: Grandma Fedosya is a master of inventing funny fables.

Style: The main thing in Polenova’s landscapes is attention to “little things”: herbs, flowers, mushrooms, insects. She tried “to be transported back to that distant childhood when, listening to this story, I imagined miniature monasteries and cities in the forest, built, so to speak, on a mushroom scale, in which these amazing creatures live and act.”

Yuri Vasnetsov

“The Stolen Sun” by Korney Chukovsky, “Cat’s House” by Samuil Marshak, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov - we present the heroes of all these books thanks to the drawings of Yuri Vasnetsov .

Style: The artist was inspired by the elegant Dymkovo dolls and bright roosters; the traditions of lubok and folk fantasy had a noticeable influence on the illustrator’s work.

Detail: Book graphics was only part of Vasnetsov’s creativity. IN paintings he showed himself to be very major master, combining folk culture and high aesthetics.

Vladimir Konashevich

Vladimir Konashevich gave us the opportunity to see Doctor Aibolit, Tyanitolkay, little Bibigon, Little Humpbacked Horse and the wise men who sailed on the sea in a thunderstorm. Talking about how he comes up with drawings, Konashevich admitted: “There are artists who invent and think with a pencil in their hand... I am an artist of a different kind. Before I take up a pencil, I have to find out everything in advance, mentally imagine a ready-made drawing in all the details..."

Style: For an artist working with children's books, one talent for drawing is not enough; a second talent is needed - kindness. Konashevich’s world is just like that, a world of kindness and dreams. The artist created recognizable style in the design of fairy tales: bright images, ornate patterns, vignettes, “live” composition that captivates not only children, but also adults.

Georgy Narbut

“From an early age, as long as I can remember,” Georgy Narbut admitted, “I was attracted to painting. Due to the lack of paints, which I did not see until I got to the gymnasium, and pencils, I used colored paper: I cut it out with scissors and glued it with flour glue.”

The artist, draftsman and illustrator, organizer of higher graphic education in Ukraine, Georgy Narbut, studied with Mikhail Dobuzhinsky and Ivan Bilibin, the latter even said: “Narbut has enormous, literally immense talent... I consider him the most outstanding, the greatest of Russian graphic artists.”

Style. In Narbut’s workshop, brilliant ideas were born and masterpieces were created that changed the history of books in Russia. Book graphics are not just virtuoso technique and refined taste. Narbut's style is always an expressive cover, decoratively designed, initial letters and skillful illustrations.

Boris Zvorykin

The artist deliberately avoided excessive publicity, which is why the facts about her biography are so scarce. It is known that he came from the Moscow merchant class and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Zvorykin is considered the founder of the “Russian style” in book illustration and the best decorative graphic artist of the early 20th century. Since 1898, he illustrated and designed books for the Moscow and St. Petersburg publishing houses of Ivan Sytin and Anatoly Mamontov. The artist's first experience in the field of children's books was the book "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" by Alexander Pushkin.

Style. Boris Zvorykin looked for inspiration for his works in Russian antiquity, decorative and applied arts, icon painting, wooden architecture and book miniatures. No wonder he was one of the active members of the Society for the Revival of Artistic Rus'.

Boris Diodorov

Boris Diodorov "revitalized" for us the heroes of Russian and foreign classics. "Tuttu Karlsson First and only, "Ludwig the Fourteenth and others," Amazing trip Nilsa with wild geese", "It's in the Hat" (about the history of hats in Russia together with Irina Konchalovskaya) - you can't list them all: in total the artist illustrated about 300 books.

Diodorov worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature", received from the hands of the Princess of Denmark gold medal H. H. Andersen, his works were exhibited in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, and South Korea.

Style: beauty fine lines. An etching technique in which a steel needle scratches a design onto a varnished surface. metal plate quite complex, but only it allows you to achieve airiness and subtlety in execution.