They gave us a fairy tale! The illustrators who brought our favorite characters to life. A guide to books, style, techniques and life stories.
Ivan Bilibin
Master of graphics, creator of a special type of illustrated book, "the first professional book" - as he is called by experts. His example is science to others; many generations of not only illustrators, but also graphic designers have sought inspiration in Bilibin's work.
"The Frog Princess", "Vasilisa the Beautiful", "Marya Morevna", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel", "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" - you should find your favorite books from childhood on the shelf to make sure - beauty!
Style. You can recognize Bilibin's work from a large format thin notebook book with large color drawings. And the artist here is not just the author of the drawings, but also of all the decorative elements of the book - covers, initials, fonts and ornamental decorations.
Elena Polenova
The museum-reserve "Abramtsevo" still keeps books illustrated by Elena Polenova. The sister of the famous painter Vasily Polenov, although she was associated with the bohemian "mammoth circle" - artists, artists, architects, was always interested in folk, peasant. She was inspired by fairy tales, in her letters to friends folklore heroes are mentioned, for example: grandmother Fedosya is a master of inventing funny stories.
Style: The main thing in Polenova's landscapes is attention to "little things": herbs, flowers, mushrooms, insects. She tried to "go back to that distant childhood, when, listening to this story, I imagined miniature monasteries and cities in the forest, built, so to speak, on a mushroom scale, in which these amazing creatures live and act."
Yuri Vasnetsov
"The Stolen Sun" by Korney Chukovsky, "The Cat's House" by Samuil Marshak, "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Pyotr Ershov - we present the heroes of all these books thanks to the drawings of Yuri Vasnetsov .
Style: The artist was inspired by elegant Dymkovo dolls and bright roosters, the traditions of popular prints and folk fantasy had a noticeable influence on the illustrator's work.
Detail: Book graphics were only a part of Vasnetsov's work. In paintings, he proved himself to be a very great master, combining folk culture and high aesthetics.
Vladimir Konashevich
Vladimir Konashevich gave us the opportunity to see Dr. Aibolit, Tyanitolkay, little Bibigon, the Little Humpbacked Horse and the wise men who sailed across the sea in a thunderstorm. Talking about how he comes up with drawings, Konashevich admitted: “There are artists who invent and think with a pencil in their hand ... I am an artist of a different warehouse. every detail..."
Style: For an artist working with children's books, one talent is not enough to draw, a second one is needed - kindness. The world of Konashevich is just such a world of kindness and dreams. The artist created a recognizable style in the design of fairy tales: bright images, ornate patterns, vignettes, a "live" composition that captivates not only children, but also adults.
Georgy Narbut
“From an early age, as far as I can remember,” Georgy Narbut admitted, “I was attracted to painting. In the absence of paints, which I had not seen until I got to the gymnasium, and pencils, I used colored paper: I cut it out with scissors and glued it with flour glue.”
Georgy Narbut, an artist, draftsman and illustrator, organizer of higher graphic education in Ukraine, studied with Mikhail Dobuzhinsky and Ivan Bilibin, the latter even said: "Narbut is a huge, truly immense talent ... I consider him the most outstanding, the largest of the Russian graphic artists."
Style. In the workshop of Narbut, brilliant ideas were born and masterpieces were created that changed the history of the book in Russia. Book graphics is not just a virtuoso technicality and refinement of taste. Narbut's style is always an expressive cover, a decoratively designed title page, initial letters and skillful illustrations.
Boris Zworykin
The artist deliberately avoided excessive publicity, which is why the facts about her biography are so scarce. It is known that he came from the Moscow merchant class and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Zvorykin is considered the founder of the "Russian style" in book illustration and the best ornamental graphic artist of the early 20th century. Since 1898, he illustrated and designed books for the Moscow and St. Petersburg publishing houses of Ivan Sytin and Anatoly Mamontov. The first experience of the artist in the field of children's books was the book "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" by Alexander Pushkin.
Style. Boris Zworykin looked for inspiration for his works in Russian antiquity, arts and crafts, icon painting, wooden architecture and book miniatures. No wonder he was one of the active members of the Society for the Revival of Artistic Rus'.
Boris Diodorov
Boris Diodorov "revived" for us the heroes of Russian and foreign classics. "Tuttu Karlsson the First and Only," Ludwig the Fourteenth and others", "Nils' Amazing Journey with Wild Geese", "The Case in the Hat" (on the history of headwear in Russia together with Irina Konchalovskaya) - you can't list them all: the artist illustrated about 300 books.
Diodorov worked as the chief artist of the Children's Literature publishing house, received the gold medal of G. H. Andersen from the hands of the Princess of Denmark, his works were exhibited in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, and South Korea.
Style: the beauty of thin lines. The etching technique, in which a drawing is scratched on a varnished metal plate with a steel needle, is rather complicated, but only it allows you to achieve airiness and subtlety in execution.
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Tales online
In this section of the site you can read children's fairy tales online for free and without registration. It is enough to select the author of the fairy tale you need in the right menu and you can immerse yourself in fascinating reading about the magical adventures of fairy-tale heroes. All fairy tales on our website are with colorful illustrations and brief content, so we recommend that you first read the summary of the fairy tale before reading it to children at night. Fairy tales for children on our website are presented in the form of an alphabetical list, so that it would be more convenient for you to find the necessary fairy tale and read it online. Reading fairy tales online is not only interesting, but also very useful - this activity perfectly develops a child's imagination.
Children's fairy tales
Remember your childhood. Each of us in childhood loved bedtime stories. At first, when we still could not read, our parents and grandparents did it to us, showing colorful illustrations in the book. When we learned to read on our own, we already began to read interesting fairy tales ourselves. On our site, fairy tales are selected for children of any age: from 2 years old to the age until children stop believing in fairy tales)) Each author's or folk tale carries a certain meaning that the author or people put into this fairy tale under the influence of the appropriate time .Fairy tales contain the basic principles of morality. It is from fairy tales that the child begins to understand what is good and what is bad. He learns to empathize with the characters, tries to imitate them, so correctly selected children's fairy tales will play an important role in the upbringing of children.
Our site presents fairy tales of the best authors of all times and peoples. The list of author's fairy tales is constantly expanding and supplemented by new arrivals. In the right menu you can see the list of authors whose fairy tales are published on the site. If you don't see the author you're looking for, use the site search.
Folk tales
The site for children collects and publishes folk tales with colorful illustrations and summaries. In the right menu you can see a list of folk tales that are presented on our website. This list is constantly updated with interesting folk tales.
The best fairy tales
The best fairy tales that are most in demand among our readers are placed in a separate block on the right. There are materials that have the highest rating - the maximum number of views and the highest ratings from readers.
Heroes of fairy tales
Each character in a children's fairy tale can be attributed to one of two types: good or bad. In almost any fairy tale, there is a struggle between good and evil, and, most often, good wins.
In addition, the heroes of fairy tales can be divided into the following categories:
Magical heroes (Gingerbread Man, Thumbelina, Little Mermaid, Kashchei the Immortal, Baba Yaga, Vodyanoy, Monster,Serpent-Gorynych, Dragon, Chippolino, Gulliver...)
magical animals(Puss in Boots, Chicken Ryaba, Fox, Bear, Cheshire Cat, Ugly Duckling, Golden Cockerel,Gray Wolf, Crane, Traveling Frog...)
social heroes(princess, prince, king, queen, master, boyar, peasant, peasant ...)
Professions(blacksmith, forester, swineherd, soldier, chimney sweep, priest, bishop...)
People of different ages(grandmother, grandfather, granddaughter, Little Red Riding Hood, mother, father, brother, sister, groom, bride...)
Bogatyrs (Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich, Nikita Kozhemyaka, Ilya Muromets...)
Each fairy tale has its own atmosphere, characteristic of a certain people and the era to which the author of the fairy tale belonged.
Free fairy tales
All fairy tales that are contained on our website are collected from open sources on the Internet and published on our website for informational purposes only. Any story can be read for free.
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For preschoolers, for teenagers and for dreamy boys and girls, Russian folk tales are collected on the page. Moms and dads, grandparents can remember their childhood and immerse themselves with their beloved children in the fascinating world of magical children's literature on our website, the Russian Fairy Tale website, online, free of charge and without registration.
Author's and folk tales are accompanied by unusual illustrations. For several centuries after the invention of lacquer and artistic painting in Rus', an incalculable wealth of colorful fairy-tale sketches of Palekh, Fedoskino, Kholuy, Mstera, Zhostovo, Dymkovo, Gzhel, Khokhloma, Russian nesting dolls and other folk crafts has been collected. One look at the page is enough to understand the artist's imagination is limitless!
Having no television, no radio, no Internet in their arsenal, but only a canvas, paints and their own imagination, storytelling artists created real masterpieces.
The incredible riot of colors and the drawing of the smallest details make these paintings the property of national Russian art and a true historical value.
Looking at the pictures, one can understand how our ancestors lived, how they dressed, how they represented this vast world. Modern children through the paintings of Russian artists will be able to realize that life was not as comfortable and carefree as in our turbulent times!
People had to work hard to grow bread, weave cloth and paint their life in a few bright colors.
A charge of goodness and light in Russian folk tales.
In times when there were no TVs and the Internet, all children and adults gathered in the evening in one large room. Candles were lit, women sat at work, and the kids climbed onto the warm and cozy stove and asked their grandmother: - tell me a story. The storyteller grandmother began to bake and read beautiful bylichki, stories that the people composed on the basis of real events. The storytellers knew many, many folk tales and chanted them, creating a magical theatrical production.
The children listened to long and short fairy tales for the night with bated breath, and absorbed with their soul and memory every word that was dropped about magical animals and people. Apart from games in the yard and invented stories, they had no other entertainment, but the guys grew up smart, brave and true patriots of the great mother of Russia.
Today, reading fairy tales with pictures is intended to develop the imagination and replenish the richness of the native Russian language. A large font will make it easy to read the text, remember the words and love reading the book, and after each line of the story there is a picture, drawing or photo of a lacquer miniature that illustrates the event and the adventures of fairy-tale characters.
The page contains our favorite fairy tales of Russian and foreign writers. Here are stories about popular and famous characters that every child should get to know in early childhood. It is better to start diving into the magical world of fairy tales with Turnip, Masha and the Bear, Kolobok and Ryaba Hen. Then move on to acquaintance with Morozko, Emelya and the magic pike, Baba Yaga and Koshchei, Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa the Beautiful, the Princess Frog and Sivka the Burka, Ivan the Fool, Rybak and the goldfish. Gradually, children will learn and fall in love with all fairy-tale characters, learn from their examples to live, love, do good, and will definitely remember fairy tales from childhood for many, many years.
Fairy tales for children 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old, 9 years old ... for kindergarten children of different ages, school students and their parents, teachers and educators.
The story cannot be replaced by anything. Children need fairy tales. A fairy tale is a multifaceted and all-encompassing force that helps to develop in a child his inner world, the basics of behavior and communication, fantasy and imagination, and creativity. A bedtime story is the best tradition to put a child to bed. Accordingly, correctly selected works will help the child calm down, forget all the fuss of the past day, and now ...
The gentle voice of mother, soothing, lulling. The child can immerse himself in the calm flow of fantasies and dreams. When reading a bedtime story, it is important to choose the right time (the child must be calm, tune in to listening). You can start reading a bedtime story even at a very young age, because babies already know their mother's voice, the sweetest sound on earth.
The plots of the fairy tales themselves should be of a kind nature and selected in accordance with the age of the child. Long, long fairy tales are suitable for children of older preschool age (these children already know how to fantasize and imagine heroes). Children of middle preschool age like fairy tales in which the main characters are animals. Kids should read short fairy tales with a repetitive plot ("Gingerbread Man", "Turnip", "Teremok"). In short fairy tales, the plot develops quickly, so it is important to choose one so that the child can calm down and fall asleep sweetly before falling asleep. A bedtime story can be planned by the mother herself or asked to choose a child and do not be upset if you have read this more than once. Repeated reading of the fairy tale will allow you to better understand its meaning and in the end it will become uninteresting.
A fairy tale is a kind of game, and to make the game more fun for adults, funny fairy tales for children come to the rescue. Funny fairy tales create a light atmosphere and convey difficult life situations to the mind of the child in a clear, accessible language. Unobtrusively, the fairy tale presents such difficult-to-explain concepts as good and evil, courage and cowardice, friendship and betrayal, greed and generosity, etc.
Based on funny and other various fairy tales with children, you can arrange home theatrical performances. It will be both entertainment and development. Listening to a fairy tale or reading it on his own, the child himself becomes a participant in the events, identifies himself with the characters, violently experiences the events that they fall into, in a word, is transferred to a different, playful reality. Being on the waves of a fairy tale in their ship, children boldly think, transfer the action outside the book and with the ease of real wizards turn their room into the scene of any fairy tale. Trying on this or that character, the child learns the facets of human characters and, as it were, tests himself.
From early childhood, we get acquainted with the characters of fairy tales and, plunging into the world of fantasy, travel with them through the land of wonders and magic. Fairy tales have come to us from time immemorial and carry historical information, authentic folk culture, reveal the boundaries of imagination and dreams, encouraging creativity. Once, a very long time ago, a new folk art of the lubok picture appeared in Rus'. These pictures most often depicted plots of fairy tales, instructive stories. It was the most widespread type of fine art, because these unpretentious pictures were closer and more understandable to ordinary village people. Many great artists were fascinated by the wonderful world of folk tales. V.M. Vasnetsov and Yu.A. Vasnetsov, I.Ya. Bilibin, M.A. Vrubel and these are not all the great talents who once created illustrations for fairy tales. Children, and many adults, perceive information better visually, which is why fairy tales for children with pictures are so popular.
Along with the folk tale, children also like the tales of foreign writers. Foreign fairy tales for children of such writers as G.H. Andersen, Charles Perot, The Brothers Grimm, L. Carroll, A. Milne, etc.
Which adult does not know "Little Red Riding Hood" or "Puss in Boots" written by Charles Perot? And is it possible to forget the cheerful fidget Pippi Longstocking and the Kid and Carlson of the Swedish writer A. Lindgren? And many other wonderful works that unite different people from different countries.
During the Soviet era, for some time they fought against fairy tales, believing that children should not replace reality with fantasy and fiction. But still, the writers K. I. Chukovsky, S. Ya. Marshak, S.V. Mikhalkov and many others, despite the prohibitions, wrote their Soviet fairy tales for children.
Nowadays, the fairy tale has many faces and now our modern fairy tales for children are called differently “fantastic story”, “fantastic book” and simply Fantasy. Today's children have begun to perceive the fairy tale in a different way; the reading mother or grandmother has replaced audio books. It has also become easier for mothers to read fairy tales for children for free on special sites with a selection of fairy tales on various topics. Sometimes you realize that children simply do not know fairy tales. Neither folk nor copyright. Literary critics are divided in opinion. On the one hand, they argue that the fairy tale has become obsolete and it is time to say goodbye to it. And on the other hand, on the contrary, that fabulous products are gaining more and more scope (books, CDs, films, related products)
What is the difference between a folk tale and an author's fairy tale for children? The folk tale was invented by the people and it was passed from mouth to mouth, that is, no one and when does not know who and when it was invented. But the author's fairy tale for children has its progenitor, that is, the person who composed it - the Author. Sometimes the author bases his work on an old rewritten fairy tale, and in some cases the author's fairy tale is from beginning to end the imagination and talent of the writer. In general, author's fairy tales are a huge layer in the multifaceted world literature.
Folk tales for children at first glance are simple and uncomplicated, but according to some psychologists, they are much more useful than author's ones. Folk tales are full of wisdom and traditions of the writer people. They can be traced, and therefore pass on to the next generation the mechanisms for solving problems that arise on the path of life.
Ukrainian fairy tales for children are a kind of chronicle of the traditions and life of the Ukrainian people. Ukrainian fairy tales reveal to us how and how this people lives, their holidays, way of life, what they had and what they did not have. The Ukrainian fairy tale has been living for a long time, but it is still relevant and interesting.
