You walk quieter - you will be more interesting

“Microspergeria” is not a man-man, wasp or other comic book characters; Olga’s book is devoted to low -proofs - the creatures are quite real, which each of us can get acquainted (as exactly about this in the book). True, really, thanks to their extraordinary survivability, have recently gained extraordinary popularity, turned into constant heroes of scientific and near -scientific memes (which are at least cartoons about the adventures of Captain Tikhokhodka), but it seems for the first time the heroes of the children's book are. Yes, Olga’s book is intended for children, which is not surprising, because it came out in the publishing house specializing in children's literature. Although there were bold and interesting experiments in the history of Samokat - for example, books were not published at all children's poets Dmitry Avaliani and Ivan Akhmetyev, and one cannot also note the comic book published by Feminism “Freedom, Equality, Naceword”, which came out in Russia with a note as much as “18+”. Yes, the experiments of the “scooter” are not alien, but still it is mainly the publisher, which specializes in children's literature. “Micro -pergeries” is a book for children, but prepared by a specialist.

Olga Affairs is a unique person: a scientist, a popularizer of science, she is also a wonderful artist-for several years already on the network and popular science publications you can watch and read her comics and illustrations dedicated, say, how the steamers are guided by the space (from the comic book, for example, we can find out what the bats are “in my head”, what is the same way-this is about it- in the comic book).

However, with all the undoubted talents, there were no books for children for Olga, so working with the publishing house became a completely new experience for her. I emphasize once again: “microsopergeria” is not a comic book, there is no rental on separate fragments, in which the action takes place (actually there is no special action here), this is precisely a children's illustrated book, consisting of the pictures as much as the text (each separate page or a separate reversal here is a separate illustration). The gloomy, “rough”, even the “dirty” style of the book, the pages of which sometimes seem almost entirely consisting of shades of gray, and the shades of deliberately gloomy, reminiscent of the colors of not too exquisite cement and concrete mixtures, may seem completely inappropriate for children's books ... In any case, it is not consistent with the still dominant fashion for the most bright, “funny” childish children's children Books ...

Nevertheless, it turned out interesting, not that I advised me to introduce the first-school children with the amazing world of quietch, although, who knows, maybe the hard drives will someday and squeeze dinosaurs in children's fantasies, games; And in the stores of toys, a plastic low-proof will be as commonplace as some kind of dinosaurus-transformer! Nevertheless, some fragments seem complicated for preschoolers. Who can be safely acquainted with the book is the students of primary and secondary school age. In the book, you can briefly find out when and who opened these amazing creatures, about their long history, structure, about where they live, what they eat (the most important disappointment awaits the young reader - the inhabitants of the mosses do not necessarily adhere exclusively to the vegetarian diet - among them there are also those that may well eat other short -ides). Of course, Olga also says about the incredible abilities of the quietch towards the survival and the biological foundations of these abilities: about how the short -proof is similar and how it differs from plant seeds, or about how sometimes low -proofs turn into “barrels”.
The advantages of the book include the fact that it is made with humor: for example, a tape of trials unfolds in front of us, which were subjected to quietchings (like freezing, rooms in a vacuum, etc.). As this complex and winding path passes and, one might say, the low -proceeding at first comes to a more and more weary state (again this is not the only joke in the book).

So, in my opinion, for a young biologist, the book will be very useful and entertaining. If you are not scared away by gray gloomy colors, I recommend that you purchase it.

Yuri Ugolnikov

Chapter from the book, see Elementy.ru/bookclub/book/874/mikrosupergeroi_Samyy_zhivuchiy