Most of the stories Konstantin Paustovsky wrote at the end of the war and in the first post-war years. Many of them, included in the collection, long fell in love with readers - "The dense bear", "The adventures of the rhinoceros beetle", "disheveled sparrow" and others. In fairy tales of the writer all is simple, everyday, almost no miracles. The nature itself is endowed with magic power. "To wri...