Somehow it goes without saying that short stories for children are exactly what they need. Firstly, children do not differ in perseverance, secondly, they will understand a short story, thirdly, kids will be able to retell it.
Great last names
But short does not mean bad or whipped up. Short stories for children were written by the brilliant classics of the great Russian literature - A. S. Pushkin, L. N. Tolstoy, A. P. Chekhov, M. Yu. Lermontov. A lot of good works for children, both short and long, were written by A.K. Tolstoy. One must possess tremendous talent in order to tell a few words a story that has a beginning and an end, maybe instructive, maybe sad or funny. Of course, the ability to write short stories for children indicates the highest degree of proficiency in the word and the filigree skill of the author.
How to write briefly and talentedly, geniuses know
There are many stories related to writing short stories. As a rule, the names of writers in these cases always belong to geniuses. Father Henry won the shortest story contest. His miniature, consisting of several sentences, had all the necessary components of a full-fledged work - the plot, climax and denouement. E. Hemingway argued that he would write a four-word story that touches readers. It’s impossible not to bring him: “Children's shoes are for sale. Newborn ". The first thing that comes to mind is that the child is dead. Then, to calm down, you can think of that dad bought the shoes and did not guess with the size. Kurt Vonnegut has even 8 rules for writing short stories. There are dozens of brilliant miniatures, including for children. And then, in order to instill good taste in children, they need to read exactly talented authors. American writer Jerome David Salinger said that even babies need to read good prose - they immediately calm down. But these are babies, and older children should react actively, preferably laughing. Therefore, short funny stories for children are created in large quantities.
Sophisticated Children's World
It’s not difficult to make a child laugh. It is difficult to write such a story so that dads and mothers would be delighted. This was a great success for the children's writer Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. A sensation was his famous book "From Two to Five." This is an anthology, which contains short funny stories for children, and a unique "textbook of childhood studies."
The book was included not only in the treasury of
children's literature, but also in the golden fund of children's pedagogy and psychology. There is a feedback in this immortal collection: adults learn a lot of interesting things about the world of children. And in a unique, touching, funny, talented way, it is shown how children learn about the surrounding reality.
Unclaimed Now
It is possible to list the classics who wrote short stories for children for a long time, here are some of them: Prishvin, Nosov, Zoshchenko. Ushinsky wrote a series of short tales for children. For example, “Bishka” is a fairy tale about a dog and a book, consisting of one short paragraph. Not longer than “Goat” and “Cow”. But these tales are little known.
I wonder why they are not read to children in the kindergarten? Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky (1824-1871) - the founder of scientific pedagogy, his works for children are written in a good, understandable language, cause a good smile, they are completely out of date.
Uncle Vani author - for children
Chekhov’s stories for children are also little read. Short works were especially successful for the author (Anton Pavlovich owns the phrase about brevity, which is the sister of talent). He wrote like that - briefly and talentedly, because he did not know how to do it differently.
True, his shortest stories ("My" she "or the terrific" Yin and Yang ") are still written for adults. But also “Kashtanka”, “Vanka”, “White-faced” - also not to lead. The address on the envelope from the story “Vanka” - “To the Grandfather's Village” - in general, became a proverb and firmly entered into everyday language.
Ingenious and noble
The author of War and Peace has a good cycle of children's works. They are known as Short Stories for Children. Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich first told them to his children, then to peasant children from Yasnaya Polyana. In addition to
brief stories about animals , this great writer has very short, but sweet and instructive tales and fables, which were included in the alphabet published by Tolstoy for village children. He made her accessible, informative and interesting. Short instructive fables are rethought works of Aesop. Not every Russian count was disturbed by such a noble cause as educating peasant children. Moreover, Tolstoy approached this matter seriously and with all responsibility: his children's cycles were designed to instill in children the desire for knowledge of the world, develop a craving for learning, instill a love for such a rather difficult task as reading books. His little stories are finished works, touching and kind. There is no edification in them, but they are instructive. Yes, and it would not be clear if the world's greatest literature had no less brilliant works for children. This is not Donald Duck comics for you. This is capitalized literature.