This one of those rare products who was written, as though by itself. Almost without my participation. That is, I sat down a typewriter, pressed keys, both... And These my participation in process of creation of this story also was limited. It is very strange story. When it was read by Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin, it has only shaken shoulders, and I, without knowing what to tell, has uncertainly...
Representing here these stories, I have dared to take a preface fragment to the story "White Bim the Black Ear", remarkable writer Gabriel Troepolsky. It is So much times these words gained me when I had to explain to different citizens that the literature for children not to be obliged not so always cheerful and carefree. Here they these words:
"... The Reader, the friend!... You think! If to write...