Vadim Levin was once a little boy. His childhood was so entrenched in his thoughts, creativity that he accompanies him already in adulthood. This person writes bright, interesting children's poems.
About Stupid Horse
One of the most popular works of Levin is the poem "Silly Horse":
The horse bought four galoshes
A couple of good ones and a couple simpler.
If a day comes out handsome,
A horse walks in good galoshes ...
This rhyme is almost half a century old. His very first readers matured long ago, their children became adults. However, “Silly Horse” remains a perky, young and relevant work.
Vadim Levin in some surprising way retained the world of childhood. Therefore, he still composes poignant, friendly poems for children written in their language. These works today help teachers and parents of babies to find common themes with them, to understand their inner world.
Biography
Vadim Alexandrovich is not only a children's poet. He is also a scientist, candidate of psychological sciences, and also a teacher. Its roots go to the Ukrainian SSR. It was there, in the city of Kharkov, in 1933 that he was born. Despite the fact that he inherited literary talent (he is the nephew of the famous poetess Hana Levina), after school, young Vadik went to the Polytechnic Institute. Only after graduation he entered the University of Kharkov at the Faculty of Philology.
The biography of Vadim Levin is closely connected with the war. When he was only 8 years old, the Second World War began. Relatives came to them from near Brest to Kharkov. According to their stressful state and stories, he studied war.
Vadim's father was a locksmith, my mother worked as an engineer. Together with his mother, as well as his grandparents, the future poet spent time in evacuation in the city of Buzuluk. From there, after some time, the family moved to Tashkent. First they were settled in the clubhouse, and then one Uzbek family sheltered. On 9 sq.m. 8 people huddled.
The boy’s father went to the front, but was seriously injured and was treated for a long time. In 1942, he found his family in Tashkent. Here he opened the first military training center in the city. He carefully prepared all the draftees for war, giving useful skills. Thanks to this, many of them survived. Vadim Levin returned to Kharkov in 1943, after the city was liberated from the Nazis.
In 1995, the poet and his family (wife and daughter) left for Israel. Now lives in Germany, the city of Marburg.
Work and literature
In his hometown, Levin for a long time led a literary studio. At the same time, he was invited to work in Moscow. There he became the host of talk shows for children.
Vadim Levin is also known as a co-author of the primer, which was created according to the pedagogical system of Elkonin-Davydov. He wrote several textbooks on the Russian language, together with other authors he created many books on pedagogy and psychology. In this regard, it seems strange that the writer came to compose children's poems.
As a child, he himself read a lot of poems for kids. And already in the 3rd grade he composed his own work. It was dedicated to a girl who ran away from him to her girlfriends immediately after dancing. It seems to the poet himself that it is terrible.
In the 6th grade, Levin helped with the publication of the school newspaper, which was satirical in nature and was called "Hedgehog." There he began to write his first epigrams, painted caricatures.
And already in 1959, Yevgeny Yevtushenko arrived in the hometown of the future poet . His poetry made a huge impression on Vadim. These were civil, piercing, too open and unusual for society poems. Then a real literary revolution took place in Levin's head. He went to a special literary studio. There he got acquainted with the works of Pasternak, Tsvetaeva. And he began to write. But best of all, poetry for children came out from under him. Now not only poetry is written by Vadim Levin. Counters know all the kids in Russia.
Works
Boys and girls love the works written by Vadim Levin very much. His poems were published in such collections:
- "Stupid horse."
- "Fish with two tails."
- "Walk with my daughter."
- "My co-author is winged."
- “Where did the circus go?”
- "Between us" and others.
Many of these books for every young child today stand on a shelf in the most honorable place, because they are incredibly loved. They are read daily before bedtime, in the morning, in the afternoon, and some verses and counters are even known by heart and used in their children's games.