Misha—a walrus, a teacher, and a poet—sets off on another journey in this new book by Artur Givargizov, this time to the Altai Mountains. If you don’t know where that is, take a look at a map! Better yet, buy a ticket to Barnaul, catch a minibus to Tyungur, and pack a backpack, a sleeping bag, and some wool socks… Wait—actually, just start by reading what’s written about it in the story "How to Get to Belukha." And how wonderful it is, after a long journey, to return home—to a place that’s familiar, cozy, and just as you left it—and tell your neighbors all about what you’ve seen. But when Misha returned from the Altai, he discovered that some surprising changes were brewing in his hometown of Pesochnoye—so surprising, in fact, that even a mammoth started to speak! That’s the subject of the collection’s second story, "The Mammoth’s Word."
For middle-school-aged readers.