Stories for children "Cucumbers", "Mishkina porridge", "Dreamers", "Living hat" by Nosov Nikolai Nikolaevich are known, perhaps, to every child. They are constantly on the list of books recommended for reading in kindergarten and elementary school. Short, funny, catchy scenes taken from life are very popular with young readers and listeners.
How became a writer Nikolai Nosov
"Live hat" and other works of the writer were born after the birth of a child in his family. The kid, like all children, needed to tell tales. But Nikolai Nikolaevich liked to invent funny stories himself - that’s how the idea came to try himself in the writing field. The first works, including the story "Living Hat", Nosov wrote in 1938, then they began to be published in children's publications, mainly in the then popular magazine "Murzilka". Soon enough of them accumulated, but the output of the collection was prevented by war. As a result, the first book appeared only in 1945 and immediately attracted the attention of readers. Since then, for several decades, Nikolai Nosov has been one of the most famous and beloved writers of young and middle-aged children.
Summary of the story
The "living hat" of Nosov begins quite normally. Two boys sit at a table and calmly draw. Nearby, at the dresser, a kitten is playing. Suddenly, the heroes hear something plop down on the floor. It turned out that a hat fell from the dresser. It’s also a common thing, but she suddenly stirred, causing fright among the guys. They understood that an inanimate object alone could not move. But the hat for no reason began to move around the room. The boy who came to visit a friend, even wanted to run away from fear. However, curiosity prevailed, and the heroes decided to find out what was going on. They began tossing potatoes into their hats and suddenly heard meowing. Nosov's work "Living Hat" ends cheerfully: the innocent kitten was responsible for the fear of friends.
Features of the plot and style
What conquers more than one generation of little readers of the book of Nikolai Nikolaevich? To answer the question, let’s take the “Live Hat” story as an example. Nosov chooses a completely real and understandable situation for each child for the plot, but introduces a bit of mystery into it. The reader, unlike heroes, from the very beginning knows who is sitting under the hat. Therefore, the compositional technique that Nosov uses works great. “Living Hat” is a humorous story, since it’s fun to watch how absolutely baseless fear is increasingly conquering heroes. In addition, the plot in the story is developing rapidly: Volodya and Vadik instantly react to what is happening and come up with an action plan. If at first they try to just run away - a natural reaction of a person when they encounter something incomprehensible and frightening, then they begin to build versions of what is happening. At some point, the boys even begin to defend themselves with a club and a ski stick, but they certainly want to reveal the secret of the hat. The only hero who really arouses the sympathy of the reader is the cat catching flies, Vaska, who became both the culprit and the victim of what happened.
The vocabulary used by the Noses is also close to the guys . “Living hat” is a story where the expressions “something flopped”, “shake with fear”, “began to be thrown” are appropriately used. They best help to understand the state of the main characters who find themselves in a comic situation.
The educational value of the story
Despite the apparent simplicity and insignificance of the described situation, children can learn several lessons from the work. Firstly, the main characters are brave, active boys. Having overcome their fear caused by fantasies, they began to look for a logical explanation of what they saw. For example, they decided that someone was just pulling his hat on a rope. It is also important that the boys decided to get to the bottom of the truth together, and Vovka, who was about to escape home, remained with his friend. Mutual assistance, courage, ingenuity will help to find a way out of any situation, Nosov emphasizes.
"Living hat" is a story about how wonderful childhood is, when you can be sincere and direct.
Reviews about the story
Many adults who first became acquainted with the work in childhood, read it to their sons, daughters, grandchildren. And the result is almost always predictable: the guys are so addicted that they begin to laugh uncontrollably. For example, this happened with the sons of M. Prilezhaeva, who still could not calm down after learning about the adventures of the heroes. A. Ivanov recalled how he first heard this story with a four-year-old child. He loved the work so much that he soon knew it by heart. But the main thing that can be distinguished in both stories is that acquaintance with “Live Hat” arouses in young readers the desire to get acquainted with other stories of the writer. And this is an introduction to the literature.
Translations and film adaptation
The works of Nikolai Nikolayevich are interesting not only to Russian children, but also to children of other countries. In Belarusian, the story "Living Hat" appeared already in 1938. Subsequently, his translations were made into Estonian, Polish, German, English, Spanish, French, Finnish, Irish and even Malagasy. By the way, according to one of the international magazines, the third place among Russian writers, most often translated into other languages, is occupied by N. Nosov.
Live Hat is a story that is perfect for a dramatization. In 1972, according to its plot, a film was made, which became a term paper of A. Surikova.