How would we live without books

We are friendly with the printed word,
If it weren’t for him,
Neither the old nor the new
We wouldn’t know anything!

Thou shalt imagine for a moment,
How would we live without books?
What would the student do,
If there were no books,
If everything disappeared at once,
What was written for children:
From magical good fairy tales
To the funny stories?..

You wanted to dispel boredom,
Find the answer to the question.
I reached for the book,
And it’s not on the shelf!

No your favorite book –
‘Chippolino’, for example,
And they ran away like boys,
Robinson and Gulliver.

No, you can’t imagine,
To make such a moment arise
And you could have been left behind.
All the heroes of children’s books.

From the Fearless Gavroche
To Timur and to Krosh –
How many of them, friends guys,
Those that we want well!

A bold book, an honest book,
Let there be a few pages in it,
In the whole world, as you know,
There are no boundaries and there are no boundaries.

All roads are open to her,
And on all continents
She speaks many
A wide variety of languages.

And it goes to any country.
Through all the centuries it will pass,
Like great novels
‘Quiet Don’ and Don Quixote!

Glory to our children’s book!
Sailing across all the seas!
And especially the Soviet –
Starting with the Primer!