The writer Sergey Sedov is a famous author of modern Russian fairy tales. His works are highly appreciated by the most difficult group of readers - these are children who, believe me, are very difficult to please. They love interesting stories, with jokes, miracles, fun adventures, brave heroes and terrible villains. And at the same time they cannot stand any falsity.
Sergey Sedov: biography
Sergei Anatolyevich Sedov was born on August 24, 1954 in Moscow. Family: father is a military pilot, mother is an economist. Education: MGPI, graduation 1981. After the institute, he worked at a school by profession, but six months later changed his occupation and got a job as a janitor. He worked part time as a sitter, an organizing teacher in the housing office.
Later, Sergey Sedov began to write amazing tales that many magazines like “Spark”, “Tram”, “Murzilka” liked. For the first time his work was published in 1987 in the newspaper "Family".
Since 1991 - member of the Writers' Union of Moscow.
There is no information about personal life.
Creation
Sergey Sadov writes in short, but in series. That is, he talks about the same hero, but in different situations. The first book printed was a series of stories “Once upon a time Lesha”, about a boy who knew how to transform everything. Since then, his books and individual fairy tales were published with enviable constancy: “Tales of Kings” (1990), “Tales of the Serpent Gorynych” (1993), “Tales of Fools” (1993), “Incredible Adventures and Travels of the Hare Zaitsev ”(2000),“ Tales of the “Children's World” (2008) and many others.
Sergey Sedov regularly became a member of various literary projects for children. For example, the Moscow City Hall ordered Sedov and Marina Moskovina to write tales about the life and adventures of the most beloved New Year's character - Santa Claus. Later, these stories came out in a separate book. This was not the first joint work of a creative duet - earlier writers wrote comics about Lenya and Lyusya for the magazine Murzilka for more than 10 years.
He also writes scripts for cartoons (“About Fool Volodya”, “Horrible Materials”, “About Our President”), scripts for films, poems and prose for adults Sergey Sedov. A photo of the author can be seen in our article (above).
A bit about illustrations
It should be noted that illustrations for most of his books are usually simple, almost caricatured. However, they fit perfectly into the plot and characters.
Author's most controversial book
The book "Tales of Moms" was published in 2010. This is a collection of short stories about a variety of mothers - brave, kind, lazy, alien mothers and alcoholic mothers. One story - one mother, with her own story, sometimes funny, often instructive and a little sad.
Should children read such books? Many readers believe that this work is designed for an adult audience, while others do not see anything wrong with the fact that the child will see the negative aspects of life, and are ready to talk with him about it. Most adhere to the golden mean: they read some stories from the collection to children, but they leave some of them to themselves.
In fact, Sergei Sedov tried in this collection to go a little beyond the scope of traditional children's literature, and the work turned out to be controversial: a little strange, maybe not too childish, but very kind and somewhere even wise, evoking at the same time a feeling of pity for some children and pride in many moms.
Books not only for children
Do you like fairy tales? It seems that in childhood everyone liked listening to good stories in which good heroes always cope with other troubles. But later, when you start reading these same books to your children, you understand how many horrors are written in them, for example, here are some quotes: “the prince gouged out his eyes” (“Rapunzel”), “cut my princess’s heart” (“Snow White”) or “the owner was about to drown the dog” (“Bremen Town Musicians”). Of course, today there are many adapted modern publications, where everything is smoother, without frank details.
Someone may say that one needs to read Russian folk tales, but there, if you recall, not everything is smooth either: “chopped up the good fellow to pieces”, “took his head off his shoulders”, “chopped off his hands, then his legs”.
There are no such phrases in Sedov’s books: his stories are not always funny, adults can also reflect on some, but he is well versed in child psychology and understands what you can tell a child, and what you should not mention.
However, each mother must decide for herself what fairy tales to read to her child.