Valentina Oseeva is the author of a series of children's stories. In her work, she continued the realistic traditions of K. D. Ushinsky and L. N. Tolstoy. Stories for children (Oseeva) carry a huge educational load, usually their core is some actual moral and ethical problem.
For 16 years, Valentina Andreevna worked with difficult teenagers, she was a teacher in a children's colony, commune and several detectors. It was her pupils who helped the writer to become what she became. She wrote stories for Oseev’s children about the war and commanders, helped children with the production of plays, and came up with a variety of collective games.
The beginning of the author's biography
The biography of Valentina Andreevna as a writer began with the work “Grishka” published in the newspaper “For Communist Education”. Oseeva Valentina Andreyevna writes her pre-war stories for children, focusing on moral standards. Vivid examples of the works of this period are the stories “Red Cat”, “Grandma” and “Volka's Day Off”. Stories for children Oseeva V.A. uses for conducting an artistic study of the actions of people of different ages. The main character of her work is traditionally a child who has committed an ethically wrong act. The child experiences his misconduct heavily, and in the throes of conscience his insight is born: what can be done, but not.
Review by Andrey Platonov
The writer Andrei Platonov analyzes stories for children (Oseeva) in his article, where he emphasizes that the work “Grandma”, written in 1939, is a jewel not only in terms of the successful transfer of the author’s intention, but also in terms of the sincerity with which the story is written . The meaning of the story is that an old grandmother lives, and everyone treats her with disdain, not taking her seriously. But then she dies, and the grandson finds the simple notes written by her. He reads them and realizes how much he was wrong when treating a sweet, loving old woman with irony and neglect. The boy deeply repents, and this cleanses his sick soul. Cleansing through the pangs of conscience - this is what Valentina Oseeva’s recipe is.
40s stories
A brief biography and stories of Valentina Oseeva teach young readers how to deal with difficult situations. Works written in the 40s are intended for preschool children and elementary schools. They also touch on the moral and ethical problems associated with the formation of the character of a teenage child.
The author writes works of this time (“Blue Leaves”, “Cookies”, “Sons”, “Three Companions”, “At the Skating Rink”, “The Magic Word”) to help children learn to read, while simultaneously influencing their souls not wise in life experience . Only Valentina Oseeva could and could do this. Stories for children and a brief analysis of her life allow us to conclude that only honest, strong, sincere people are capable of correct, worthy deeds. Oseeva's stories are characterized by careful selection of means of artistic speech; they make a deep impression on both the child and the adult. This is explained by the skillful construction of sentences, the correct use of intonation and the accuracy of the choice of conflict. For many years, the stories of Valentina Aleksandrovna Oseeva occupy the textbooks of literature of elementary schoolchildren and preschool a worthy place.
The story, which gave the name of the cycle
The Magic Word is a story that has become a textbook. In order to interest young readers in reading the work and convey to them the meaning of the polite word “please,” the author uses a fairy tale narrative in the story. The protagonist receives all the advice from a mysterious old man who looks a bit like a wizard.
Indeed, the word suggested by the old man to the boy turns out to be magical. Its use leads to the fact that everyone listens to the wishes of the hero: a sister, a grandmother, and even an older brother. The magic word makes people accommodating and friendly. The story is written in such a way that, having read it, the little reader is unlikely to resist the temptation to come up with a sequel. Better yet, experience the effect of the magic word on yourself and your loved ones.
The series of stories "The Magic Word"
All stories of the cycle in one way or another touch on moral and ethical and moral issues. They tell about the life of ordinary average people who live with us side by side. On the example of the heroes of her works, Valentina Oseeva teaches children to correctly comprehend moral laws and rules. Creating her stories for children, Oseeva Valentina Aleksandrovna as if publishes her own endless set of rules that are formulated or derived from the narrative.
In the writer's stories, everything serves to reveal the author’s intention, even the names of the works, some of which ask the main question to which the story is devoted. For example: “Bad”, “Good”, “Debt”, “Who is the boss” and so on.
The problems analyzed by examples of these works do not concern conditional children's sins and virtues, such as disobedience or sloppiness, but serious qualities worthy of any adult person (kindness, sensitivity, honesty) and the disadvantages of human nature opposed to them (meanness, selfishness, rudeness, indifference) . The life authenticity of Valentina Oseeva’s stories takes for life and makes you think deeply about the moral issues raised by the author.