Ульяна Камалитдинова

 Hi, my name is Juliana Kamalitdinova, I am a painter and decorator.  And today I want to share with you the emotions of my new find.  This is a children’s book named “A Journey on Four Legs” by a wonderful contemporary Belarusian author Mikhail Kunitskiy.  A book with many colorful illustrations was published in 2021 in London.  It will undoubtedly grab your attention on the shelves at first sight!  Its cover can be viewed as a small world, and what awaits you on each spread of the book is just an amazing and bewitching sight.  As an artist, this unconditionally pleased and bribed me.  I would like to say a special thanks to illustrator Albina Petrova for this!

  And, of course, moving on to the content, I, as a baby’s mother, really appreciate such deep, kind and touching works in our time.  My little reader, I’m sure, just like me, in addition to the colorful story conveyed in the pictures, will really like small verses — inserts.  They are filled with soulfulness, liveliness, and tell about interesting details, so subtly and, sometimes with humor, noticed by the author.

  The book was written on behalf of an amazing pet, which is immediately clear from the title.  On his four legs, he sets off on an exciting journey.  And the author tells this story, looking at the world through the eyes of a puppy, who, like a child, believes in miracles, magic, the power of people, animals and nature.

  Going to his goal, he again and again proves to himself and the reader how beautiful this world and everyone who surrounds us is, you just have to take a closer look.  This is an amazing story about a dog, friendship, loyalty, adventure full of exciting moments, sometimes even fraught with danger.

  On the pages of the book, an inquisitive puppy named Blackie sets off on an exciting journey, which he will tell us about with such extraordinary delight!  But first, he will introduce us his family, mistress Nastya and other inhabitants of the house and garden.  Blackie will share with the reader Nastya’s cherished dream, for the sake of which he ran away from home, visited the zoo, the forest, the Volodya grandfather’s and his grandson’s country house, and made many new friends.  And then on a ship sailed to Africa, where he met an oceanologist with his son Gais from the city of Cairo. They offered to take him on a deep-sea expedition to the bathyscaphe.  Having visited the underwater world with all its beauties and dangers, Blackie got to the Galapagos and, finally, found what he was looking for!  Happy and tired, he went home with the help of his new friends from Cairo.

  And how met the traveler puppy at home and what happened then, please read for yourself.  Because this book is definitely worth reading!  And it doesn’t matter at all, how old you are, whether you will read it with your children or yourself, quietly wrapping yourself in a blanket in the kitchen with a cup of hot cocoa. With such a cute and fascinating story, you can definitely warm up on a cool autumn evening.  I would also recommend it for a family reading during the winter holidays, because the plot evokes a sense of wonder and magic.  And, of course, it is perfect as a gift for your loved ones and their children, and just for those who are still a child in their souls, like me.

  I am in love with this bright, cheerful book and will definitely re-read it to all my children.  «Adventure on Four Legs» by Mikhail Kunitsky will definitely take a place in our desk books for a long time!