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Sophia Prokofieva

    Sofia Prokofieva was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books, a playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Her works often fall into the genre of the fairy tale narrative, weaving magic into stories for both young children and schoolchildren. While she wrote poetry from a young age, her primary legacy lies in her extensive body of magical tales, contributing a unique fairy tale style to children's literature.

    Raggity and the Cloud
    • Raggity and the Cloud

      • 157 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      When a greedy king rules a fairy tale land, it is bad. But when that king takes all the water from the wells, streams, and rivers just to hoard even more, it is a horror beyond imagination, even in a fairy tale. Trees die, fields dry up, there is no trace of grass, only dust and desert everywhere. People must pay dearly to the king for every drop of water. Who knows if the Cloud, which flew into that unfortunate kingdom to visit his old friend the frog Rositta, will manage to quench the people's thirst and save the land from drought! Will he be helped by the little orphan Hadrnička, the chimney sweep Sazínek, and the painter Ultramarín to find the locked spring and return water to the river? Even old Krupikucha, the most famous cook of the most famous semolina porridge, could do nothing if... But what! You can read or listen to the book to find out how it all turned out - you would thank us for that! So...

      Raggity and the Cloud1990