Responsible Child. Poems for Children

“Everyone who knows and loves Vera Polozkova’s poems, and everyone who knows and grumbles about Vera Polozkova’s poems – that is, approximately everyone who is capable of reading Russian and distinguishing poetry from prose – asked themselves and each other: what will Vera write about when she is no longer interested in unhappy love? This book is the answer. These are not poems about any other love (for example, mother’s). These are simply words of love. Polozkova again says what everyone would like to, but could not. We would like to compose such fairy tales and such nursery rhymes for our children, we would like to, saying in verse, carry them on our shoulders and rhythmically jump. But it did not work out. Now it is easy for us. All that remains is to read this book with them until they completely memorize it and then talk with quotes from it for the rest of their lives” (Alexander Gavrilov, literary critic).