Books about family for preschoolers 4-7 years old
Agniya Barto
- At home;
- His family;
- In an empty apartment;
- Younger brother.
Tatiana Agibalova
- In the family circle;
- What could be more valuable than family?
Oleg Bundur
- About love;
- Sunday;
- Family;
- I'm taking care of mom and dad.
Y. L. Akim
- Man in the house;
- My brother Misha.
V. D. Berestov
- King Lulu.
E. A. Blaginina
- Mother;
- That's what mom is like;
- Our grandfather;
- I’ll teach my brother how to put on shoes too;
- Alyonushka.
Sergey Mikhalkov
- Klutz.
V.Yu. Dragunsky
- "Chicky-kick."
N.M. Artyukhova
- "Big Birch"
M. Druzhinina
- "Girl on the contrary";
- "Postcard".
For 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 grades
The most precious thing we have is our family. She may be far from ideal, because she is not chosen, but still be our most valuable treasure.
So, parts of my treasure were mom and dad, as well as little Martin, our hamster. But recently our family has added one more person - my younger brother Simon. I always approach him with amazement and wild interest and we play for several hours, not noticing the time.
My mother works as a teacher, she loves children very much. The class is always crazy about her. Mom knows how to lure children into even the most boring lesson, she can joke and laugh with everyone, but at the same time she always keeps discipline under control. Looking at her, I can get along with Simon without any problems and understand without words why he is capricious.
Dad works as a builder and constructs huge buildings that take your breath away. I once visited him at a construction site. Then they put on a protective helmet and vest for my safety. I asked to go to the very top of the building and then I froze in amazement when I saw the beautiful view of our city from above. When I grow up, I want to be like my dad. He always supports us and protects us from problems, and also pampers us with treats, although his mother sometimes forbids him to do this.
From birth, Simon was restless and required constant supervision, and I helped my mother with this. Once he almost squeezed Martin in his hands when he wanted to play with him. It's good that I saw it in time. Now he has grown a little and it has become much more interesting for me to spend time with him playing with cars and construction sets.
A word about Martin, he appeared with us shortly before Simon. You should see how he runs around the house in a special ball for hamsters, sometimes we don’t have time to keep an eye on him. When he sleeps, he looks like a little fluffy ball.
Our family has an unspoken rule - we spend every Sunday together. This could be a walk somewhere around the city, or vice versa - outside the city, it could be a trip to the cinema together, or home gatherings with treats and board games. Also, the support of each family member in difficult times is obvious. Together we experience moments of joy and sadness for each of us.
But things are not always so rosy. Sometimes quarrels run between us, which are resolved only by good and sincere conversations, and then by the strongest hugs.
During this time, we learned not only to resolve conflicts, but also became closer to each other. We can talk about anything and will always stand up for each other. After all, family is the most expensive treasure that cannot be bought for any money in the world.
For children of primary and secondary school age 7-13 years old
Astrid Lindgren
- “We are all from Bullerby”;
- “On the Island of Saltrock”;
- "Pippi Longstocking";
- “The Lionheart Brothers” - all A. Lindgren’s books are permeated by a friendly atmosphere of mutual understanding between children and adults.
Pamella Travers
- “Mary Poppins” is a fabulous story about the cheerful Banks family: mom, dad, five children and their amazing nanny, who teach each other mutual assistance, respect and love.
Tove Jansson
- "Tales of the Moomins" - a family of fairy-tale creatures, it turns out, solves the same problems as the families of ordinary people.
Judy Bloom
- “Ordinary Peter, or You Can’t Choose Younger Brothers” is a story about the birth of a youngest child in a family, full of humor and kindness.
Lydia Charskaya
- "Notes of a little schoolgirl."
Valentina Oseeva
- "Dinka."
J.m. Barry
- "Peter Pan and Wendy."
Mikhail Zoshchenko
- "Lelya and Minka."
Evgeny Schwartz
- "The Adventures of Shura and Marusya."
Arkady Gaidar
- "Chuk and Gek."
Ian Larry
- "The extraordinary adventures of Karik and Valya."
Eduard Uspensky
- "Uncle Fyodor, dog and cat."
Lev Kassil:
- "Conduit and Schwambrania". A fascinating book about children of the 20s of the last century, their hobbies, creativity, relationships with parents.
Option #5
Family is one of the main values of a person, something that he should protect and respect. Of course, there are bad families, but if a person is lucky and all his relatives are good people, then he should be proud of them.
I love my family very much, because we are very united and friendly, and besides, each of us has our own role. For example, my mother loves to make the house cozy and cook, so she devotes herself completely to these activities. She cooks very tasty, and after she cleans the room, a fairy tale reigns. Dad loves to go fishing and woodburning. On weekends he brings a lot of fish for dinner, and on holidays he gives us beautiful things made of wood. My sister loves animals, she takes care of our cat: she feeds her, changes her litter tray. I love helping my parents, so I wash the dishes every day and the floors every two days.
Of course, family is not only those people who live with you under the same roof, it is everyone you love and always look forward to visiting. My aunt, uncle and cousin. When they come to us, the fun begins: my sister and I always play, read and run, and my uncle, aunt and my parents sit at the table, drink tea and talk.
Since mom and dad work, we can only have fun on weekends. On Saturday the whole family goes to zoos or museums. If it’s winter outside, we take ice skates, skates or skis and go for a ride, and if it’s summer, we play badminton or football. My dad is a football player, so he always teaches my sister and me something new. Every evening we all sit together in the hall and talk about life: about our adventures, plans for the future, just fantasies and dreams. At such moments, even adult mom and dad become romantics who share their innermost desires to meet a fairy or see a unicorn.
Every year, on Family Day, we go camping, light a fire there and enjoy the time spent with each other. I look forward to this night every year.
I like to see how dad loves mom, he looks at her like a young boy in love, and mom always answers him with a tender look. They love my sister and me very much, they say that they don’t know how they lived without us. Perhaps this is love. Perhaps this is a real family. I dream that when I grow up, I will get married and will also look lovingly at my wife and my children.
Books about family for high school students aged 13-18
L. F. Voronkova
- "Elder sister";
- “Personal Happiness” is a story about a girl, on whose shoulders, after the death of her mother, fell the burden of caring for her family: her father and younger sister and brother.
E. Kaestner
- “When I Was Little” is a story about the writer’s childhood, parents, and great-grandparents, reliably conveying a sense of family togetherness and family affection.
Dina Sabitova
- “Where There Is No Winter” is a story about the amazing friendship of a brother and sister in the ocean of terrible circumstances of their lives.
Anne-Katharina Westley
- “Dad, Mom, Grandma, Eight Children and a Truck”;
- “A little gift for Anton”;
- "Dad, mother, grandmother and eight children in Denmark."
Jean-Philippe Arroux-Vigneault
- “Omelet with sugar. Adventures of a family from Cherbourg."
Louisa Alcott
- “Little Women” is a bright and touching story about a family in which worries and difficulties do not interfere with sincere love between household members.
S. Vostokov
- “Trees Make the Wind” - funny and sad stories from a preschool boy about his life at home and in kindergarten, about relationships with parents and friends.
A. N. Tolstoy
- “Nikita’s Childhood” is a story inspired by childhood memories that paints vivid images of the writer’s father and mother, who played a big role in his life.
I. Minutko
- “An Old Linden Tree in a Moscow Courtyard” is a story about teenagers whose parents help them find the right solutions to difficult moral problems.
D. Aldridge
- “The Last Inch” is an action-packed story in which a father, under the threat of death, is forced to seek a common language with his son, who has never been close to him.
M. Pagnol
- “The Childhood of Marcel” is a story about the writer’s childhood, spent in an old village house surrounded by a large family: father, mother, uncle, aunt and younger brother.
L. N. Tolstoy
"Childhood. Adolescence. Youth” - in three stories, the great Russian classic emphasizes the fundamental role of his parents in the formation of his moral principles, worldview and attitude towards the world around him.
A. P. Chekhov
- “The Event” is a story about a rich and prosperous family in which the children are unhappy due to a lack of mutual understanding with their parents.
Yu. Yakovlev
- “The Boy with Skates” is a story about a boy who really misses his father in his life.
Pavel Sanaev
- "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard".
Anatoly Aleksin:
- “The Groom's Diary” is a story about how parental love can be selfish and blind and cripple the fate of the child. But at some point a child must grow up and feel personal responsibility for his destiny. Here is the second story about exactly this.
- “Meanwhile, somewhere” - schoolboy Seryozha Emelyanov is being brought up in an exemplary family - that’s what everyone around him says. But one day he accidentally finds out that his father is not such an exemplary person. Once he left a woman who put him on his feet, literally and figuratively, and then did not even respond to her request for help. The author talks about what decision Seryozha made.
In general, almost every story by Aleksin contains a difficult situation in family relationships.
Narine Abgaryan
- "Manyunya."
Dina Rubina
- "On the sunny side of the street."
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- "Kukotsky's case."
Essay on the topic My family
I have a big family - grandmother, mother, father, me and my two sisters. You probably noticed that I named my grandmother first on this family list? Do you know why? Because she is the most important in our family!
And not only because she is the oldest, but because the whole house rests on her, because the warmth and comfort of our home is her doing. Granny's cooking is so finger-licking! There is no and cannot be tastier than her borscht and cutlets in the whole wide world. And the compote prepared by my grandmother is tastier than any store-bought juice. You probably think that I just really love to eat and because of this I praise my granny so much? Not at all, not only because of this. Also because she never grumbles. She is very cheerful with us. For example, it was my grandmother who taught me how to properly play games such as “Cossacks-robbers”, “bouncer” and even “langa”. She also knows many interesting stories. Not only I, but our whole family loves listening to them.
Our house is always clean and cozy. Just don’t think that we blamed all our worries and troubles on grandma. We help her with everything. The sisters clean the house. I go to the store, take out the trash, and do whatever my grandma tells me to do. When grandma is resting, we don’t make any noise or bother her with any trifles. And also, grandma always finds different kind words for everyone.
My parents are also very good. Mom and dad never quarrel. They work very hard. And I’m sorry that I don’t see them as often as I would like. Of course, even though they come late, they always find time to talk to us, ask about things at school, check lessons and tickle their sisters, because tickling makes them laugh so joyfully that we all start laughing with them. Dad says that our laughter takes away all the fatigue from him. Our mother is beautiful and affectionate. And not strict at all. Mom has a very beautiful voice and we love when dad plays the guitar and mom sings. And my sisters have funny laughs. They never whine, they don’t nurse. And for this I love them very much. Sometimes I take them with me to play, my friends don’t mind at all, because they know that my sisters are cool.
Weekends are always like a holiday for us! Because we all get together and we are never bored. In winter there is a skating rink and snow slides, in summer there is a park, a river and many other interesting things.
I think that the happiness of our family lies in the fact that we have each other, that we decide everything together and know how, and most importantly, we want to constantly please each other.
Seventh daughter
Vasily Sukhomlinsky
Mother had seven daughters. One day a mother went to visit her son, but the son lived far, far away. Mother returned home a month later.
When she entered the hut, the daughters, one after another, began to say how much they missed their Mother.
“I missed you like a poppy misses a ray of sunshine,” said the first daughter.
“I was waiting for you, like dry earth waiting for a drop of water,” said the second daughter.
“I cried for you like a little chick cries for a bird...” cooed the third daughter.
“It was difficult for me without you, like a bee without a flower,” said the fourth daughter, caressing her mother and looking into her eyes.
“I dreamed of you like a rose dreams of a drop of dew,” chirped the fifth daughter.
“I looked out for you like a nightingale looks out for a cherry orchard,” whispered the sixth daughter.
But the seventh daughter said nothing, although she had a lot to say. She took off Mother’s shoes and brought her water in a large basin to wash her feet.
Angela Nanetti: My grandfather was a cherry 6+
This book was included in the list of outstanding books for children, which is compiled by the International Munich Youth Library; was awarded prizes in Italy, Germany and France, and Angela Nanetti was nominated for the main prize in children's literature - the H.H. Andersen Prize.
The main character of the book has a very unusual grandfather, he can “hear the trees,” has irrepressible energy and a sense of freedom, and therefore seems a little strange to ordinary people. The grandson learns a lot from him - how much you can love, how you can be sad, but still live on. Nanetti easily and naturally speaks to the reader on such a complex topic as the suffering and death of loved ones. The author sincerely believes that “a person does not die as long as the cherry trees continue to live for him.”
Simone Ciraolo “Wrinkles on Granny’s Face”, 4+
A little girl asks her grandmother about the wrinkles on her face and learns that behind each of them lies an amazing story. For example, the wrinkle on the forehead contains the morning when the grandmother revealed one big secret, and the wrinkle near the lips appeared at a moment of great happiness - when the grandmother saw her granddaughter for the first time. Any event in our life does not pass without a trace, leaving its marks on our faces. The wrinkles that so adorn the faces of grandmothers are traces not only of joyful events, but also of hurtful words, disobedience and worries about their children and grandchildren.
Simone Ciraolo's touching story teaches children to treat loved ones with care and appreciate them, to be kind and sensitive. Don't forget to kiss grandma after reading!
Mira Lobe “Grandma on the Apple Tree”, 0+
Not all children have grandmothers. So little Andi only has a photograph of his still very young grandmother - unlike his friends, whose grandmothers are alive, real, take them for walks and take care of them. Andi dreams of a brave grandmother who would become his companion in all his childhood adventures, and finds her on... an apple tree! What started here! The only pity is that the grandmother disappeared as soon as someone called out to Andi. And then the boy accidentally met a new elderly neighbor - and it turned out that there was nothing stopping him from loving two grandmothers.
Alexandra Litvina “The History of an Old Apartment”, 6+
“An old house in a quiet Moscow side street, six flights up and a door to the left - and we are in an old Moscow apartment. We will spend 100 years in it, get to know several generations of the family, witness meetings and partings, grief and happiness, losses and hopes that many families in Russia have experienced,” reads the book’s abstract.
A hundred-year-old story is told by people and their things: household items, books, dishes - witnesses of personal and secret stories that definitely cannot be found in a textbook. Alexandra Livina did a great job, researching many archival photographs and documents, and the artist Anna Desnitskaya accurately and aptly painted the eras of our lives in which different generations recognize themselves and their childhood.
Ana Machado “Great-grandmother Beatrice and great-grandmother Isabelle”, 6+
Another touching book about the connection between generations. The heroine meets her great-grandmother, who is no longer alive. Do you think this is impossible? Not at all - if you have a photograph of your great-grandmother as a child and an indefatigable imagination. Gradually, the great-grandmother becomes her granddaughter’s best friend, and she understands how important it is to know her roots and remember them.
Ana Mashdoo's book won the Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 2000. It will be an excellent reason to talk with children about ancestors and roots that go back centuries.
David Cali, Sebastien Murren “My House”, 5+
“Sometimes you need to travel around the globe only to return to where you already started. Maybe this is my home?
This book is about finding your calling and place in life. The main character makes a great journey, which unexpectedly ends where it began - in his home. It cannot be replaced by either solitude on a tropical island or life in a luxurious villa - after all, it is the first house that holds all the most valuable memories. Who knows, maybe your path to yourself lies through the house in which you lived your carefree childhood years?
Evgenia Dvoskina “Will Sasha come out?”, 12+
“Mom, get me something to drink!”, “Put on your hat!” Every parent will recognize and remember their Soviet childhood, carefully preserved and described in pictures by Evgenia Dvoskina.
“The characters in this book beat out the carpet in the yard, cook condensed milk, iron a pioneer tie, avoid stepping on cracks in the asphalt, and measure the depth of puddles in the spring. And they send call signs to each other under the windows: “Will Sasha come out?”
Touching, easily recognizable sketches of Soviet childhood, accompanied by imaginative, apt, laconic and slightly ironic text, are gathered under one cover to meet their readers: big and small.
Birthday lunch
Vasily Sukhomlinsky
Nina has a large family: mother, father, two brothers, two sisters, grandmother.
Nina is the smallest: she is nine years old. Grandmother is the eldest; she is eighty-two years old.
When the family is having dinner, grandma's hand trembles. Everyone is used to it and tries not to notice.
If someone looks at grandma’s hand and thinks: why is it trembling? – her hand trembles even more. The grandmother is carrying a spoon - the spoon is shaking, droplets are dripping onto the table.
Nina's birthday is coming soon. Mother said that there would be lunch on her name day. She and her grandmother will bake a big sweet pie. Let Nina invite her friends.
Guests arrived. Mom sets the table with a white tablecloth. Nina thought: Grandma will sit down at the table, and her hand will tremble. Your friends will laugh and tell everyone at school.
Nina said quietly to her mother:
- Mom, don’t let grandma sit at the table today...
- Why? - Mom was surprised.
- Her hand is shaking... It’s dripping on the table...
Mom turned pale. Without saying a word, she took the white tablecloth off the table and hid it in the closet.
Mom sat silently for a long time, then said:
- Our grandmother is sick today. There will be no birthday dinner.
Happy birthday to you, Nina. My wish for you: be a real person.
Ekaterina Laskova “The history of our family. The book that we will write together with grandma", 16+
This book for older schoolchildren and teenagers was created to help carefully preserve family history and get to know the older generation better. Your child can independently write down family stories told by his grandmother in this beautiful album, paste photographs, letters, postcards and become a little closer with his grandparents, understand them better.
The book-album contains more than a hundred of the most important questions, the answers to which a child can get from a grandmother, grandfather or other older relative. You just need to choose a time for the meeting and write everything down.
The book is made of thick, high-quality paper and carefully designed - to become a family heirloom and be passed on from generation to generation.
Yurko - Timurovite
Vasily Sukhomlinsky
Third-grader Yurko became a Timurovite. Even the commander of a small Timurov detachment. There are nine boys in his squad. They help two grandmothers who live on the outskirts of the village. They planted apple trees and roses near their huts and watered them. They bring water, go to the store for bread.
Today is a rainy autumn day. Yurko and the boys went to chop wood for their grandmother. I came home tired and angry.
He took off his shoes and hung up his coat. Both boots and coat are covered in mud.
Yurko sat down at the table. Mom serves him lunch, and grandmother washes his shoes and cleans his coat.
Grandma is resting
Vasily Sukhomlinsky
Little Galinka came home from school. She opened the door and wanted to say something cheerfully to her mother. But mom threatened Galinka with her finger and whispered:
- Quiet, Galinka, grandma is resting. I didn’t sleep the whole night, my heart hurt.
Galinka quietly walked up to the table and put down her briefcase. I had lunch and sat down to study homework. He reads the book quietly, to himself, so as not to wake up his grandmother.
The door opened and Olya, Galinka’s friend, came. She said loudly:
- Galinka, listen...
Galinka shook her finger at her, like a mother, and whispered:
- Quiet, Olya, grandma is resting. She didn’t sleep the whole night, her heart ached.
The girls sat down at the table and looked at the drawings.
And two tears rolled out from grandma’s closed eyes.
When the grandmother stood up, Galinka asked:
- Grandma, why did you cry in your sleep?
Grandmother smiled and kissed Galinka. Joy shone in her eyes.
