Toreadors from Vasyukivka

A cult work that was included in the list of golden classics of Ukrainian literature. At one time, the story "Toreadors from Vasyukivka" was included in the compulsory school curriculum. The book is marked in the "The IBBY Honour List" and translated into twenty languages. Thanks to the author's excellent ability to create humorous stories, a series of funny stories sometimes makes readers laugh uncontrollably. Vsevolod Nestayko's book "Toreadors from Vasyukivka" was created for children and youth, but any adult, acquainted with the content of adventure stories, will be delighted and in a great mood. The book tells about the school years of two inseparable friends, Java and Pavlusha, who passionately want to become famous all over the world. The story series includes three short stories that were previously published independently of each other and not related to a common plot, only characters. The story begins with a desperate engineering project of the boys - the construction of a subway branch under a rural pigsty. As a result, a 50-kilogram pig falls into the abyss of the "engineering project" of Java and Pavlusha. There are many simple but funny and intriguing stories in the book "Toreadors from Vasyukivka" in Ukrainian. Take, for example, a bullfight of boys with a village cow Contribution, building a submarine or a cunning plan to find foreign spies from your village. At the same time, all works are based on a simple idea - friendship and willingness to come to the aid of a person in need.