Today I suddenly remembered a book I read in childhood. I barely remembered its title - "The Girl and the Bird Plane". It turned out to be a Ukrainian novel written in 1966. The story takes place in Soviet #Kiev in the post-war years. The main c...
...haracter is a 13-year-old girl, Olya, who is passionate about chemistry, writes poetry, and wants to create an aircraft with her friends. Olya and her organize friends a laboratory for experiments in search of the necessary catalyst. Among the adventures are events related to the acquisition of chemical reagents, the money for which the children earn by selling their own belongings (for example, Olya gives away a camera given to her by her parents). Olya helps a repeater named Kolya and se...
...cures his acceptance into her company of young talents (her friend Vitya is a virtuoso fencer, Seryozha is a clown-wit, and she writes poetry herself). Later, Kolya's father dies, and Olya, along with a friend, tries to find out what it was: an accident or murder. I decided to reread it and couldn't tear myself away. All the scenes from the book clearly pop into my memory and come to life as if I had read it just yesterday. I didn't even suspect it before, but now I clearly see that this b...
...ook had a great influence on me in my childhood. We always came up with various activities for ourselves, created interest (like clubs or groups), and had no free time at all. We were always full of adventures, and we also loved conducting investigations, even though we were only about 10 years old at the time. It turns out that the book has a film adaptation from 1968. I'm going to watch it soon. I found from this movie on YouTube.