Translations of children's poetry by Chukovsky. English folk songs - Chukovsky K.I.

The telephone rank.
“Hello! Who's there?"
“The Polar Bear.”
“What do you want?”
“I’m calling for the Elephant.”
“What does he want?”
“He wants a little
Peanut brittle.”

“Peanut brittle! … And for whom?”
“It's for his little
Elephant sons.”
“How much does he want?”
“Oh, five or six tons.
Right now that's all
That they can manage—they’re quite small.”

The telephone rank. The Crocodile
Said, with a tear,
“My dearest dear,
We don’t need umbrellas or mackintoshes;
My wife and baby need new galoshes;
Send us some, please!”
“Wait-wasn’t it you
Who just last week ordered two
Pairs of beautiful brand-new galoshes?”

“Oh, those that came last week-they
Got gobbled up right away;
And we just can’t wait-
For supper tonight
We'd like to sprinkle on our goulashes
One or two dozen delicious galoshes!”
The telephone rank. The Turtle Doves
Said: “Send us, please, some long white gloves!”

It rank again; the Chimpanzees
Giggled: “Phone books, please!”

The telephone rank. The Grizzly Bear
Said: “Grr-Grr!”
“Stop, Bear, don’t growl, don’t bawl!
Just tell me what you want!”
But on he went-“Grr!” Grrrrrrr…”
Why; what for?
I couldn't make out;
I just banged down the receiver.

The telephone rank. The Flamingos
Said: “Rush us over a bottle of those
Little pink pills! ...
We've swallowed every frog in the lake,
And are croaking with a stomachache!”

The Pig telephoned. Ivan Pigtail
Said: “Send over Nina Nightingale!
Together, I bet,
We'll sing a duet
That opera lovers will never forget!
I’ll begin-”
“No, you won’t. The Divine Nightingale
Accompany a Pig! Ivan Petrovich,
No!
You’d better call on Katya Crow!”

The telephone rank. The Polar Bear
Said: “Come to the aid of the Walrus, Sir!
He's about
to choke
on a fat
oyster!”

And so it goes. The whole day long
The same silly song:
Ting-a-ling!
Ting-a-ling!
Ting-a-ling!
A Seal telephones, and then a Gazelle,
And just now two very queer
Reindeer,
Who said: “Oh, dear, oh, dear,
Did you hear? Is it true
That the Bump-Bump Cars at the Carnival
Have everyone burned up?”

“Are you out of your minds, you silly Deer?
The Merry-Go-Round
At the Carnival still goes round,
And the Bump-Bump Cars are running, too;
You wanted to go right
Out to the Carnival this very night
And buzz around in the Bump-Bump Cars
And ride the Ferris Wheel up to the stars!”

But they wouldn’t listen, the silly Deer;
They just went on: “Oh, dear, oh, dear,
Did you hear? Is it true
That the Bump-Bump Cars
At the Carnival
Have everyone burned up?”

How wrong-headed Reindeer really are!

At five in the morning the telephone rank:
The Kangaroo
Said: “Hello, Rub-a-dub-dub,
How are you?”
Which really made me ravaging mad.
“I don’t know any Rub-a-dub-dub,
Soapflakes! Pancakes! Bubbledy-bub
Why don't you
Try calling Pinhead Zero Two! …”

I haven’t slept for three whole nights.
I'd really like to go to bed
And get some sleep.
But every time I lay down my head
The telephone rings.

“Who's there-Hello!”
“It's the Rhino.”
“What's wrong, Rhino?”
“Terrible trouble,
Come on the double!”
“What's the matter? Why the fuss?”
“Quick. Save him..."
“Who?”
“The hippopotamus.
He’s sinking out there in that awful swamp…”
“In the swamp?”
“Yes, he’s stuck.”
“And if you don’t come right away,
He'll drown in that terrible damp
And dismal swamp.
He'll die, he'll croak-oh, oh, oh.
Poor Hippo-po-po………………”

“Okay...
I'm coming
Right away!”

Whew: What a job! You need a truck
To help a Hippo when he’s stuck!

Korney Chukovsky
Translated by William Jay Smith

Russian Soviet poet, publicist, literary critic, translator and literary critic, children's writer, journalist. Father of writers Nikolai Korneevich Chukovsky and Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya.
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was born on March 31, 1882 in St. Petersburg. The frequently encountered date of his birth, April 1, appeared due to an error during the transition to a new style (13 days were added, not 12, as should be the case for the 19th century). Nevertheless, Korney himself celebrated his birthday on April 1.
Nikolai’s mother was a peasant woman from the Poltava province, Ekaterina Osipovna Korneichukova, who worked as a maid in St. Petersburg for the Levenson family. She lived in a civil marriage with the son of the family, student Emmanuel Solomonovich Levenson. The boy who was born already had a three-year-old sister, Maria, from the same union. Soon after Nikolai’s birth, student Levenson left his illegitimate family and married a woman “of his own circle.” Ekaterina Osipovna was forced to move to Odessa.
Nikolai Korneychukov spent his childhood in Odessa and Nikolaev. In Odessa, the family settled in an outbuilding, in the Makri house on Novorybnaya Street, No. 6. In 1887, the Korneychukovs changed their apartment, moving to the address: Barshman’s house, Kanatny Lane, No. 3. Five-year-old Nikolai was sent to Madame Bekhteeva’s kindergarten, about his stay in which he left the following memories: “We marched to the music, drew pictures. The oldest among us was a curly-haired boy with black lips, whose name was Volodya Zhabotinsky. That’s when I met the future national hero of Israel - in 1888 or 1889!!!” For some time, the future writer studied at the second Odessa gymnasium (later it became the fifth). His classmate at that time was Boris Zhitkov (in the future also a writer and traveler), with whom young Korney began a friendly relationship. Chukovsky never managed to graduate from high school: he was expelled, according to his own statements, due to his low origin. He described these events in his autobiographical story “The Silver Coat of Arms.”
According to the memoirs of K. Chukovsky, he “never had such luxury as a father or even a grandfather,” which in his youth and youth served as a constant source of shame and mental suffering for him.
Since 1901, Chukovsky began writing articles in Odessa News. Chukovsky was introduced to literature by his close gymnasium friend, journalist V. E. Zhabotinsky. Jabotinsky was also the groom's guarantor at the wedding of Chukovsky and Maria Borisovna Goldfeld.
Then, in 1903, Chukovsky, as the only newspaper correspondent who knew English (which he learned independently from Ohlendorf’s “Self-Teacher of the English Language”), and tempted by a high salary for those times - the publisher promised 100 rubles monthly - went to London as a correspondent for Odessa News. where he went with his young wife. In addition to Odessa News, Chukovsky’s English articles were published in Southern Review and some Kyiv newspapers. But fees from Russia arrived irregularly, and then stopped altogether. The pregnant wife had to be sent back to Odessa. Chukovsky earned money by copying catalogs at the British Museum. But in London, Chukovsky became thoroughly acquainted with English literature - he read Dickens and Thackeray in the original.
Returning to Odessa at the end of 1904, Chukovsky settled with his family on Bazarnaya Street No. 2 and plunged into the events of the 1905 revolution. Chukovsky was captured by the revolution. He visited the mutinous battleship Potemkin twice, among other things, accepting letters to loved ones from the mutinous sailors. In St. Petersburg he began publishing the satirical magazine Signal. Among the magazine's authors were such famous writers as Kuprin, Fyodor Sologub and Teffi. After the fourth issue, he was arrested for lese majeste. He was defended by the famous lawyer Gruzenberg, who achieved an acquittal. Chukovsky was under arrest for 9 days.
In 1906, Korney Ivanovich arrived in the Finnish town of Kuokkala (now Repino, Kurortny district (St. Petersburg)), where he made close acquaintance with the artist Ilya Repin and the writer Korolenko. It was Chukovsky who convinced Repin to take his writing seriously and prepare a book of memoirs, “Distant Close.” Chukovsky lived in Kuokkala for about 10 years. From the combination of the words Chukovsky and Kuokkala, “Chukokkala” (invented by Repin) is formed - the name of the handwritten humorous almanac that Korney Ivanovich kept until the last days of his life.
In 1907, Chukovsky published translations of Walt Whitman. The book became popular, which increased Chukovsky's fame in the literary community. Chukovsky became an influential critic, trashed tabloid literature (articles about Lydia Charskaya, Anastasia Verbitskaya, “Nata Pinkerton”, etc.), wittily defended the futurists - both in articles and in public lectures - from the attacks of traditional criticism (he met Mayakovsky in Kuokkala and later became friends with him), although the futurists themselves were not always grateful to him for this; developed his own recognizable style (reconstruction of the psychological appearance of the writer based on numerous quotes from him).
In 1916, Chukovsky and a delegation from the State Duma visited England again. In 1917, Patterson’s book “With the Jewish Detachment at Gallipoli” (about the Jewish Legion in the British Army) was published, edited and with a foreword by Chukovsky.
After the revolution, Chukovsky continued to engage in criticism, publishing his two most famous books about the work of his contemporaries - “The Book about Alexander Blok” (“Alexander Blok as a Man and Poet”) and “Akhmatova and Mayakovsky.” The circumstances of the Soviet era turned out to be ungrateful for critical activity, and Chukovsky had to “bury” this talent of his, which he later regretted.
In 1908, his critical essays about the writers Chekhov, Balmont, Blok, Sergeev-Tsensky, Kuprin, Gorky, Artsybashev, Merezhkovsky, Bryusov and others were published, forming the collection “From Chekhov to the Present Day,” which went through three editions within a year.
Since 1917, Chukovsky began many years of work on Nekrasov, his favorite poet. Through his efforts, the first Soviet collection of Nekrasov’s poems was published. Chukovsky completed work on it only in 1926, having revised a lot of manuscripts and provided the texts with scientific comments. The monograph “Nekrasov’s Mastery,” published in 1952, was reprinted many times, and in 1962 Chukovsky was awarded the Lenin Prize for it. After 1917, it was possible to publish a significant part of Nekrasov’s poems, which were either previously prohibited by tsarist censorship or were “vetoed” by copyright holders. About a quarter of Nekrasov’s currently known poetic lines were put into circulation by Korney Chukovsky. In addition, in the 1920s, he discovered and published manuscripts of Nekrasov’s prose works (“The Life and Adventures of Tikhon Trosnikov”, “The Thin Man” and others).
In addition to Nekrasov, Chukovsky studied the biography and work of a number of other writers of the 19th century (Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Sleptsov), which is the subject of, in particular, his book “People and Books of the Sixties,” and participated in the preparation of the text and editing of many publications. Chukovsky considered Chekhov to be the writer closest to himself in spirit.

The passion for children's literature, which made Chukovsky famous, began relatively late, when he was already a famous critic. In 1916, Chukovsky compiled the collection “Yolka” and wrote his first fairy tale “Crocodile”.
In 1923, his famous fairy tales “Moidodyr” and “Cockroach” were published.
Chukovsky had another passion in his life - studying the psyche of children and how they master speech. He recorded his observations of children and their verbal creativity in the book “From Two to Five” (1933).
In December 1929, the Literary Gazette published a letter from Chukovsky renouncing fairy tales and promising to create the collection “Merry Collective Farm.” Chukovsky took the abdication hard (his daughter also fell ill with tuberculosis): he really would not write a single fairy tale after that (until 1942), as well as the mentioned collection.
The 1930s were marked by two personal tragedies for Chukovsky: in 1931, his daughter Murochka died after a serious illness, and in 1938, the husband of his daughter Lydia, physicist Matvey Bronstein, was shot. In 1938, Chukovsky moved from Leningrad to Moscow.
In the 1930s, Chukovsky worked a lot on the theory of literary translation (“The Art of Translation” of 1936, republished before the start of the war, in 1941, under the title “High Art”) and translations into Russian themselves (M. Twain, O. Wilde, R. Kipling and others, including in the form of “retellings” for children).
He begins to write memoirs, which he worked on until the end of his life (“Contemporaries” in the “ZhZL” series). Diaries 1901-1969 were published posthumously.
In recent years, Chukovsky was a popular favorite, a laureate of a number of state awards and a holder of orders, but at the same time maintained contacts with dissidents (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Litvinovs, his daughter Lydia was also a prominent human rights activist). At his dacha in Peredelkino, where he lived permanently in recent years, he organized meetings with local children, talked with them, read poetry, and invited famous people, famous pilots, artists, writers, and poets to meetings. Peredelkino children, who have long since become adults, still remember these childhood gatherings at Chukovsky’s dacha.
Korney Ivanovich died on October 28, 1969 from viral hepatitis. At the dacha in Peredelkino, where the writer lived most of his life, his museum now operates.

Funny English songs translated by Chukovsky. These rhymes are easy to remember and children really like them. Read Poems about Barabek, Kotausi and Mausi, Chicken and others on our website.

Brave men

Our tailors
What brave ones:
“We are not afraid of animals,
No wolves, no bears!”

How did you get out the gate?
Yes, we saw a snail -
We got scared
Run away!
Here they are
Brave tailors!

(Illustration by V.Suteeva)

Crooked Song

There lived a man
twisted legs,
And he walked for a whole century
Along a crooked path.

And beyond the crooked river
In a crooked house
Lived in summer and winter
Crooked mice.

And they stood at the gate
Twisted Christmas trees,
We walked there without worries
Crooked wolves.

And they had one
crooked cat,
And she meowed
Sitting by the window.

And beyond the crooked bridge
Crooked woman
Through the swamp barefoot
Jumped like a toad.

And it was in her hand
twisted stick,
And flew after her
Twisted jackdaw.

(Illustration by V. Suteeva)

Barabek

(How to tease a glutton)
Robin Bobin Barabek
Ate forty people
And a cow and a bull,
And the crooked butcher,

And the cart and the arc,
And a broom and a poker,
I ate the church, I ate the house,
And a forge with a blacksmith,
And then he says:
“My stomach hurts!”

(Illustration by V.Suteeva)

Kotausi and Mausi

Once upon a time there lived a mouse named Mousey
And suddenly I saw Kotausi.
Kotaushi has evil eyes
And the evil, despicable Zubausi.

Kotausi ran up to Mausi
And she waved her tail:
"Oh, Mausi, Mausi, Mausi,
Come to me, dear Mausi,
I'll sing you a song, Mausi,
A wonderful song, Mausi!

But smart Mausi answered:
“You will not deceive me, Kotaushi!
I see your evil eyes
And the evil, despicable Zubausi!”

So the smart Mausi answered:
And quickly run away from Kotausi.

(Illustration by V.Suteeva)

Chicken

I had a beautiful hen.

Oh, what a smart chicken she was!

She sewed caftans for me, sewed boots,

She baked sweet, rosy pies for me.

And when he manages, he sits at the gate -
He will tell a fairy tale, sing a song.

(ed. Planet of Childhood)

Jenny

Jenny lost her shoe

I cried and searched for a long time.

The miller found a shoe

And ground it at the mill.

(Published by Planet of Childhood)

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• Famous Russian writer, translator, literary critic Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky

• real name - Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov / born March 31, 1882 in St. Petersburg.

• When Chukovsky was three years old, his parents divorced, and he stayed with his mother. They lived in the south, in poverty. The writer subsequently spoke about his childhood in the story “Silver Forest” (1961).

• He studied at the Odessa gymnasium, from the fifth grade of which he was expelled when, by special decree, educational institutions were “liberated” from children of “low” origin.

• From his youth, Chukovsky led a working life, engaged in self-education: he read a lot, studied English and French.

• In 1901, he began publishing in the newspaper Odessa News, for which he was sent to London in 1903 as a correspondent. While living in England, Chukovsky studied English literature and wrote about it in the Russian press. After returning, he settled in St. Petersburg, took up literary criticism, and collaborated in Valery Bryusov’s magazine “Scales”.

• In 1905, he organized the weekly satirical magazine Signal (financed by Bolshoi Theater singer Leonid Sobinov), which published cartoons and poems with anti-government content. The magazine was subjected to repression for “defaming the existing order”; the publisher was sentenced to six months in prison.

• After the revolution of 1905-1907, Chukovsky's critical essays appeared in various publications; later they were collected in the books “From Chekhov to the Present Day” (1908), “Critical Stories” (1911), “Faces and Masks” (1914), “Futurists” (1922).

In 1912, he settled in the Finnish town of Kuokkala, where he became friends with Ilya Repin, Vladimir Korolenko, Leonid Andreev, Alexei Tolstoy, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others. All of them later became characters in his memoirs and essays, and his home handwritten almanac "Chukokkala", in which Dozens of celebrities left their creative autographs - from Repin to Solzhenitsyn - over time it turned into an invaluable cultural monument.

• The versatility of Chukovsky's interests is expressed in his literary activities: he publishes translations from W. Whitman, studies literature for children, children's literary creativity, and works on the legacy of N. Nekrasov, his favorite poet.

• He published the book “Nekrasov as an Artist” (1922), a collection of articles “Nekrasov” (1926), and the book “The Mastery of Nekrasov” (1952).

• But Chukovsky found his most important calling in poetry for children: in 1916, at the invitation of Gorky, Chukovsky headed the children's department of the Parus publishing house and began writing for children: poetic tales "Crocodile" (1916), "Moidodyr" (1923), "Fly" -tsokotukha" (1924), "Barmaley" (1925), "Aibolit" (1929).

• Chukovsky's poems for children were published in a total circulation of about 50 million.

• Chukovsky’s work in the field of children’s literature naturally led him to the study of children’s language, the first researcher of which he became, publishing the book “Little Children” in 1928, which later received the title “From Two to Five.”

• Chukovsky owns a whole series of books on the craft of translation: “Principles of Literary Translation” (1919), “The Art of Translation” (1930, 1936), “High Art” (1941, 1968). In 1967, his book “About Chekhov” was published.

• As a translator, Chukovsky opened Walt Whitman, Richard Kipling, and Oscar Wilde to Russian readers. He translated Mark Twain, Gilbert Chesterton, William Shakespeare, and wrote retellings of the works of Daniel Defoe and Erich Raspe for children.

• In 1962, Chukovsky acted as a linguist, writing a book about the Russian language, “Alive as Life” (1962).

• In the last years of his life, he wrote essays about Mikhail Zoshchenko, Boris Zhitkov, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and many others.

• In 1957, Chukovsky was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Philology. In 1962, Chukovsky became a Lenin Prize laureate for his book “The Mastery of Nekrasov.” In the same year he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Oxford University.

• Korney Chukovsky died on October 28, 1969 at the age of 87. He was buried in Peredelkino, where he lived for many years.

The fairy-tale world of K. I. Chukovsky

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882 - 1969) is rightfully considered one of the favorite children's writers. Throughout his life, he communicated with children, was interested in what they talked about, thought, experienced, wrote poetry and prose for them, and translated the best examples of the world's children's poetry. And yet, K. Chukovsky’s main contribution to Russian children’s literature was and remains his poetic fairy tales, addressed to the youngest reader and which became “an integral attribute of childhood.” This is a unique, holistic world, which “is a kind of model of the Universe,” as E. M. Neyolov notes in his article about Chukovsky’s fairy tales. That is why they are more than just entertaining stories for young children - Chukovsky’s fairy tales become a way of understanding the world.

K. Chukovsky's first fairy tale - "Crocodile" - was written in 1916. Already in this work, those features clearly appear that will then become the core of K. Chukovsky's fairy-tale Universe. The plot is based on a “horrible story” about the “girl Lyalechka”, ending with her miraculous rescue by the “daring hero” Vanya Vasilchikov. The reader will encounter this type of plot more than once - for example, in the fairy tales "The Cluttering Fly" and "The Cockroach". In the process of plot development, two constant motifs of K. Chukovsky’s fairy tales replace each other: scary and funny. Both are, first of all, tools: scaring or making the reader laugh is not an end in itself. Researchers of K. Chukovsky’s work come to the conclusion that fear in his fairy tales becomes a means of nurturing in a child the ability to sympathize and empathize with the characters. In addition, by reading these fairy tales, the child learns to overcome his fears, because the world that the author reveals to him is, by definition, good. It is no coincidence that many fairy tales open or, on the contrary, end with a picture of general fun and celebration.

• The fairy-tale world changes, all the characters hide or run away, but also “suddenly” there is a brave and kind hero - Vanya Vasilchikov, the sparrow, the “little mosquito,” Doctor Aibolit. He saves the victim from the villain, helps those in trouble and returns the whole world to its original joyful state.

• Thus, at a very early age, becoming acquainted with the fairy-tale world of K. Chukovsky, children receive initial ideas about good and evil, about how the world works and what a person should be.

• Peculiarities of the poetics of K. I. Chukovsky’s works

Poetics of poetic fairy tales by K. Chukovsky First of all, they are determined by the fact that they are addressed to the little ones. The author faces a supreme task - to tell a person who is just entering the world in an accessible language about the unshakable foundations of existence, categories so complex that even adults are still interpreting them. Within the framework of the artistic world of K. Chukovsky, this problem is brilliantly solved with the help of poetic means: the language of children's poetry turns out to be infinitely capacious and expressive and at the same time well known and understandable to every child. Literary scholars note a unique feature of the fairy-tale world created by K. Chukovsky - cinematic principle, used to organize artistic space and bring the text as close as possible to children's perception. This principle is manifested in the fact that fragments of text follow each other in the same sequence as it could be during editing.

• This construction of the text corresponds to the gradual approach of the camera to the object: the general plan is replaced by a medium one, the middle one by a close-up, and now an ordinary insect turns into a formidable fantastic monster before our eyes. In the finale, the opposite transformation occurs: the terrible monster turns out to be just a “liquid-legged little bug.”

The variability of the hero and the entire fairy-tale world- another characteristic property of the poetics of K. Chukovsky’s fairy tales. Researchers note that during the development of the plot, the fairy-tale Universe “explodes” several times, the action takes an unexpected turn, and the picture of the world changes. This variability also manifests itself at the rhythmic level: the rhythm sometimes slows down, sometimes speeds up, long, leisurely lines are replaced by short, abrupt ones. In this regard, it is customary to talk about "vortex composition" fairy tales by K. Chukovsky. The little reader is easily drawn into this cycle of events, and thus the author gives him an idea of ​​the dynamics of existence, of a moving, ever-changing world. Only ethical categories, ideas about good and evil turn out to be stable: evil heroes invariably die, good ones win, saving not only an individual character, but the whole world.

folklore traditions

Both at the level of ideas and at the poetic level, K. Chukovsky’s tales are based on various folklore traditions. On the one hand, these are the traditions of folk tales about animals, when one hero is opposed to many animal characters; on the other hand, there is an epic motif about the struggle of a hero with a monster. In addition, the connection between K. Chukovsky’s fairy tales and children’s folklore itself, for example, “scary stories,” has been noted more than once. All this greatly facilitates the child’s perception of the content of poetic fairy tales, and this also contributes to their syntactic proximity to children's speech. It is known that K. Chukovsky closely studied the speech and psychology of the child - his book “From Two to Five” (1928) is dedicated to this. In fairy tales, the very fabric of the narrative absorbs such features of children's speech as short simple sentences, an abundance of exclamations ("Glory, glory to Aibolit! Glory to the good doctors!"), repetitions of words ("Fly, fly, Tskotukha, Gilded belly)", parallelism of syntactic structures (“The bear could not stand it, the bear roared and the bear flew at the evil enemy”). In general, all the features of the poetics of K. Chukovsky’s poetic fairy tales contribute to telling a child about serious and complex things in a light, playful manner.

Works by K.I. Chukovsky

• Works by K.I. Chukovsky

Commandments for children's poets

• Commandments for children's poets

• The fastest change of images.

• Poems should be graphic, since the thinking of younger children is characterized by imagery.

• Verbal painting should be lyrical.

• Mobility and changeability of rhythm.

• Increased musical poetic speech.

• Rhymes in poetry should be placed at the closest distance from one another.

• Rhymes in poetry carry the main meaning of the entire phrase.

• Each line of poetry should live its own life.

• Don't clutter your poems with adjectives.

• The predominant rhythm should be trochee.

• Poems should be playful, since the leading activity of primary schoolchildren and preschoolers is play.

• Poetry for little ones should be poetry for adults too!

• In our poems, we should not so much adapt to the child as adapt him to ourselves, to our “adult” feelings and thoughts.

• Extracurricular reading lesson in 2nd grade. Topic: “Our storyteller” Based on the works of K.I. Chukovsky.

• Epigraph for the lesson: “The creative process brings joy to the creator, the fruits of creativity bring joy to others.”

• Purpose of the lesson: To introduce second-graders to new pages of the biography and creativity of K.I. Chukovsky.

• Lesson objectives:

• - to cultivate a feeling of love, kindness and joy of communicating with each other based on the author’s works;

• - develop expressive reading skills in children, improve various types of speech activity;

• - create conditions for the development of creativity, memory, imagination when working with Chukovsky’s works.

Preliminary preparation:

• Preliminary preparation:

• Reading the works of K. Chukovsky

• Book exhibition

• Selection of additional material

• Exhibition of drawings

• Finding information about the writer

• Intersubject connection:- Russian language - lessons in speech development - History - acquaintance with the facts of the writer’s biography and explaining them from the perspective of historical time - Drawing - drawings, illustrations for works

• Educational technologies used in the lesson:

• Group activity technology

• Gaming technologies

• Problem-based learning (partially exploratory)

• During the classes.

1. Organizational moment: Once upon a time there was a little man who knew a lot, a lot, almost everything in the world. But he was bored, because his soul was asleep. But then one day he found himself in an amazing country. He traveled there for a long time, met its inhabitants, and his soul awakened. Do you want to get to this country? Hold hands. Do you feel warmth coming from your hands? These are waves of friendship - friendship with friends, with a teacher, with a writer, with a book. They will help us get to this amazing country. Sit back, let's go. (trip map opens)

• 2. Introductory part: I’m reading the poem “Joy” - what made you smile when listening to this poem? - how would you title it?

• 3. Teacher's message: This poem was written by Chukovsky. We will remember this writer or learn something new in the first city of our trip, which is called “Chukosha”.

• Forty minutes drive from the capital, in one of the most beautiful corners of the Moscow region, in the village of Peredelkino, among birches and pines, in a small country house lived for many years a man who was known not only by all the children of the village, but also by all the small residents of Moscow and our entire huge country and beyond its borders.

What a giant he seemed to them, to these little friends “from two to five”, a real kind wizard from a fairy tale - huge, loud-voiced, unlike anyone else, generous with affection, always having a joke, a saying in reserve for everyone - small and big , a kind word, loud laughter, to which one could not help but respond, from which the little ones’ eyes sparkled and their cheeks turned pink.

• Writer biography quiz

• What year were you born?

• In what city?

• What city did you move to with your mother?

• How many classes did you study at the gymnasium?

• To which country was he sent to work as a correspondent?

A piece of paper is attached to the map: 1. St. Petersburg 1882 2. Odessa. 3. 1901 – newspaper “Petersburg News” 4. 1903 – England. London 5. 1916 - the first fairy tale “Crocodile” 6. Moscow. Peredelkino. 1969.. 7. “Scales”, “Signals”, “Niva”, “Russian Thought”, “Rose Hip”, “Pa-Rus”. You know a lot about the writer, well done. But are you familiar with his works?

• Group work

• Group 1 What did the heroes of the fairy tale “Cockroach” ride on? Bears on ________________________ Mosquitoes on _______________________ Crayfish on __________________________ Wolves on __________________________ Lions on ___________________________ Bunnies on _________________________

Group 2 Insert the word missing from the title of the literary work 1. ________________________-Tsokotukha 2. Katausi and ________________________ 3. _________________- grief 4. Stolen ________________________ 5. ___________________- tree 6. ___________________- Aibolit 7. ___________________- reads 8. ___________________- laughs 9 . Robin Bobin _______________ 10. Lived in the world _______________

• Traveling around the city: The second stop is the city of RIDDLE. Why is this city called that?

• PUZZLES

1. Here are the needles and pins They are crawling out from under the bench They are looking at me, They want milk. 2. I walk, I wander not through the forests, but through my mustache, through my hair. And my teeth are longer than those of wolves and bears. 3. Oh, don’t touch me: I’ll burn you even without fire. 4. The sage saw him as a sage, the fool saw him as a fool, the ram saw him as a ram, the sheep saw him as a sheep, and the monkey saw him as a monkey. But then they brought Fedya Baratov to him, and Fedya saw a shaggy slob. 5. From a hot well, water flows through the nose. 6. The gnomes live in a wooden house. They are such good-natured people - they hand out lights to everyone.

• In what genres did Chukovsky show himself? (after the answers a piece of paper is posted) - fairy tales - poems - stories - from two to five - English songs - riddles

• Let’s check again how carefully you read his works: Game “Instructions” 1. Read the passage. 2. Think about the answer 3. Go to Tatyana Nikolaevna and tell her the answer.

What fairy tale is this character from? Option 1 Suddenly, from somewhere, a jackal galloped up on a mare, “Here’s a telegram from a hippopotamus!” Option 2 The kittens meowed: “We’re tired of meowing! We want to grunt like piglets!” Option 3 My phone rang. - Who's talking? - Elephant - Where from? - From the camel - What do you want? - Chocolate 4 option Little children! Don't go to Africa for anything in the world, Go for a walk in Africa! Option 5 The blanket ran away, the sheet flew away, and the pillow, like a frog, jumped away from me. Option 6 The bears were riding a bicycle. And behind them is a cat, backwards. Option 7 It’s a long walk to the swamp, It’s not easy to walk to the swamp, And the frogs put a bundle on the stone, “It would be nice to lie down on the stone for an hour!” Option 8 Not leaves on it, Not flowers on it, But stockings and shoes, Like apples. Option 9 Dear guests, help! Kill the villain spider! And I fed you, And I gave you water, Do not leave me In my last hour! Third stop CITY OF CLEAN - In what works does the author call for being clean, neat, orderly? A piece of paper on the map: - Moidodyr - Fedorino's grief - read the passage - what things ran away from the boy - how did the story end? - What verbs characterize the actions of the dishes in “Fedora’s Mountain”? - Why? - How did the story end? 4th stop THE CITY OF SHIVOROT - TOpsy-turvy - in what works can you find the situation. Where is it the other way around?

• Card sheet: “Confusion” “Miracle tree” - what did the author get confused? - Why did the writer mess everything up? - Which lines are the funniest?

• 5th stop SCARY CITY - Chukovsky amused the children not only with confusion, but also with scary stories. Card sheet: “Cockroach” “Barmaley” “Crocodile” - what kind of scary stories are these, or rather funny? - What does the fairy tale “Crocodile” teach us?

• 6th stop CITY OF AYBOLITIA Map sheet: “Aibolit” prose poetry - who helped Aibolit - brief retelling

• 7 – stop CITY OF POEMS, - which poems by Chukovsky have you read? Card sheet: “Turtle”, etc. - Dramatization of the poem “Zakalyaka” (Guys prepared in advance)

• 8th stop CITY OF SONG - what will we talk about at this stop? - Memorize 1-2 songs

• 9th stop CITY OF HEROES Quiz on illustrations to the writer’s works. Game “who eats what?” Connect with arrows the Animals What they eat Elephant Cockroach Crocodile Washcloth Sparrow Chocolate Butterfly Galoshes Jam

• Lesson summary:

• 1. Fill out a reader’s diary for the work you like. What strings of your soul woke up and began to sing? What did you write in the “my opinion” column?

• 2. Did you enjoy the trip? - Why do not only children, but also adults like Chukovsky’s works? What was your mood? Choose a leaf of a certain color - for our flower, which we will make as a memory of our trip (on the children’s tables there are multi-colored petals made of colored paper)

Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich (1882-1969), real name and surname Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov, Russian writer, poet, translator, literary critic.

Born March 19 (31), 1882 in St. Petersburg. The writer suffered for many years from the fact that he was “illegitimate.” The father was Emmanuel Solomonovich Levenson, in whose family Korney Chukovsky’s mother lived as a servant. His father left them, and his mother, a Poltava peasant woman Ekaterina Osipovna Korneychukova, moved to Odessa. There he was sent to a gymnasium, but in the fifth grade he was expelled due to his low origin. He described these events in his autobiographical story “The Silver Coat of Arms.” I was self-educated and learned English. Since 1901, Chukovsky began writing articles in Odessa News. Chukovsky was introduced into literature by the journalist Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, who later became an outstanding Zionist political figure. Then in 1903 he was sent as a correspondent to London, where he became thoroughly acquainted with English literature. Returning to Russia during the revolution of 1905, Chukovsky was captured by revolutionary events, visited the battleship Potemkin, collaborated in the journal V.Ya. Bryusov “Scales”, then began publishing the satirical magazine “Signal” in St. Petersburg. Among the magazine's authors were such famous writers as Kuprin, Fyodor Sologub and Teffi. After the fourth issue, he was arrested for lese majeste. Fortunately for Korney Ivanovich, he was defended by the famous lawyer Gruzenberg, who achieved an acquittal.

In 1906, Korney Ivanovich arrived in the Finnish town of Kuokkala, where he became close acquaintances with the artist Repin and the writer Korolenko. The writer also maintained contacts with N.N. Evreinov, L.N. Andreev, A.I. Kuprin, V.V. Mayakovsky. All of them subsequently became characters in his memoirs and essays, and the home handwritten almanac of Chukokkala, in which dozens of celebrities left their creative autographs - from Repin to A.I. Solzhenitsyn, - over time turned into an invaluable cultural monument. Here he lived for about 10 years. From the combination of the words Chukovsky and Kuokkala, “Chukokkala” (invented by Repin) is formed - the name of the handwritten humorous almanac that Korney Ivanovich kept until the last days of his life.

In 1907, Chukovsky published translations of Walt Whitman. The book became popular, which increased Chukovsky's fame in the literary community. Chukovsky becomes an influential critic, trashes tabloid literature (articles about A. Verbitskaya, L. Charskaya, the book “Nat Pinkerton and Modern Literature”, etc.) Chukovsky’s sharp articles were published in periodicals, and then he compiled the books “From Chekhov to the Present Day” ( 1908), “Critical Stories” (1911), “Faces and Masks” (1914), “Futurists” (1922), etc. Chukovsky is the first researcher of “mass culture” in Russia. Chukovsky's creative interests constantly expanded, his work acquired an increasingly universal, encyclopedic character over time.

Having started on the advice of V.G. Korolenko to the study of the legacy of N.A. Nekrasov, Chukovsky made many textual discoveries, managed to change the poet’s aesthetic reputation for the better (in particular, he conducted a questionnaire survey “Nekrasov and We"). Through his efforts, the first Soviet collection of Nekrasov’s poems was published. Chukovsky completed work on it only in 1926, having revised a lot of manuscripts and provided the texts with scientific comments. The result of this research work was the book “Nekrasov’s Mastery”, 1952, (Lenin Prize, 1962). Along the way, Chukovsky studied the poetry of T.G. Shevchenko, literature of the 1860s, biography and creativity of A.P. Chekhov.

Having headed the children's department of the Parus publishing house at the invitation of M. Gorky, Chukovsky himself began to write poetry (then prose) for children. Around this time, Korney Ivanovich began to become interested in children's literature. In 1916, Chukovsky compiled the collection “Yolka” and wrote his first fairy tale “Crocodile” (1916).

Chukovsky's work in the field of children's literature naturally led him to the study of children's language, of which he became the first researcher. This became his real passion - the psyche of children and how they master speech. His famous fairy tales “Moidodyr” and “Cockroach” (1923), “Tsokotukha Fly” (1924), “Barmaley” (1925), “Telephone” (1926) were published - unsurpassed masterpieces of literature “for little ones”, still published , so we can say that already in these fairy tales Chukovsky successfully used knowledge of children's perception of the world and native speech. He recorded his observations of children and their verbal creativity in the book “Little Children” (1928), later called “From Two to Five” (1933).

“All my other works are overshadowed to such an extent by my children’s fairy tales that in the minds of many readers, except for “Moidodyrs” and “Mukh-Tsokotukh”, I wrote nothing at all.”

Chukovsky’s children’s poems were subjected to severe persecution during the Stalinist era, although it is known that Stalin himself repeatedly quoted “The Cockroach.” The initiator of the persecution was N.K. Krupskaya, and inappropriate criticism also came from Agnia Barto. Among editors, even such a term arose - “Chukovism”.

In the 1930s and later, Chukovsky did a lot of translations and began to write memoirs, which he worked on until the end of his life. Chukovsky opened up W. Whitman (to whom he also devoted the study “My Whitman”), R. Kipling, and O. Wilde to the Russian reader. Translated by M. Twain, G. Chesterton, O. Henry, A.K. Doyle, W. Shakespeare, wrote retellings of the works of D. Defoe, R.E. for children. Raspe, J. Greenwood.

In 1957, Chukovsky was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Philology, and in 1962 - the honorary title of Doctor of Literature from Oxford University. As a linguist, Chukovsky wrote a witty and temperamental book about the Russian language, “Alive as Life” (1962), resolutely speaking out against bureaucratic cliches, the so-called “bureaucracy.” As a translator, Chukovsky deals with the theory of translation, creating one of the most authoritative books in this field - “High Art” (1968).

In the 1960s, K. Chukovsky also started retelling the Bible for children. He attracted writers and literary figures to this project, and carefully edited their work. The project itself was very difficult, due to the anti-religious position of the Soviet government. The book entitled “The Tower of Babel and Other Ancient Legends” was published by the publishing house “Children's Literature” in 1968. However, the entire circulation was destroyed by the authorities. The first book publication available to the reader took place in 1990.

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky died on October 28, 1969 from viral hepatitis. At his dacha in Peredelkino (Moscow region), where he lived most of his life, his museum now operates there.