Author Description

This poem is about a funny mix-up that happened among the animals.The author Korney Chukovsky was a renowned Russian writer and poet, who, with more than 300 million copies of his books printed and translated into 90 languages, is one of the most published authors in the world. The illustrations are by the award-winning artist Franceska Yarbusova, the wife and collaborator of Yuri Norstein. Yarbusova was the co-creator of the animated films Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales, two films that were declared to be the Best Animated Films of All Time.