School of kindness. Stories for children (Oseeva Valentina)

Valentina Oseeva is the author of a series of children's stories. In her work she continued the realistic traditions of KD Ushinsky and Leo Tolstoy. Stories for children (Oseeva) have a huge educational load, usually their core is some actual moral and ethical problem.

For 16 years, Valentina Andreevna worked with difficult teenagers, she was a tutor in a children's colony, a commune and several detectors. It was her students who helped the writer to become what she had become. She wrote stories for the children of Oseeva about the war and commanders, helped the children with the production of plays, invented a variety of collective games.

Beginning of the author's biography

The biography of Valentina Andreevna as a writer began with the work "Grishka", published in the newspaper "For Communist Education". His pre-war stories for children Oseeva Valentina Andreevna writes, focusing on the moral standards. Bright examples of works of this period are the stories "Red Cat", "Grandma" and "Wolki's Day off". Stories for children Oseeva VA Uses for the conduct of artistic research of people of different ages. The main hero of her work is traditionally the child who committed the wrong act from the point of view of ethics. The child is seriously experiencing his misdeed, and in the throes of conscience he has an insight: how to do it, but how.

Review of Andrei Platonov

Writer Andrei Platonov analyzes stories for children (Oseeva) in his article, where he stresses that the work "Babka", written in 1939, is a jewel not only in terms of the successful transfer of the author's design, but also in terms of the sincerity with which the story is written . The meaning of the story is that an old grandmother lives, and everyone treats her with disdain without taking her seriously. But then she dies, and her grandson finds her simple notes written by her. He reads them and understands how much was wrong, treating a nice, loving old woman with irony and disdain. The boy deeply repents, and it cleanses his sick soul. Cleansing through the throes of conscience - that's the recipe for Valentina Oseeva.

Short stories of the 40s

A brief biography and stories by Valentina Oseeva teach small readers how to act in difficult situations. The works written in the 1940s are intended for pre-school and junior school. They also affect the moral and ethical problems associated with the formation of the character of the adolescent child.

Works by this time ("Blue Leaves", "Cookies", "Sons", "Three Comrades", "On the rink", "Magic Word"), the author writes to help children learn to read, working in parallel with their souls . So could and did only Valentina Oseeva. Stories for children and analysis of her brief life allow us to draw conclusions that only honest, strong, sincere people are capable of right, worthy deeds. Oseeva's stories are characterized by careful selection of the means of artistic speech, they produce a deep impression both on the child and on the adult. This is explained by the skillful construction of proposals, the correct use of intonation and the accuracy of the choice of conflict. Over the years, the stories of Valentina Alexandrovna Oseeva occupy a worthy place in the textbooks of the literature of junior schoolchildren and preschool children.

The story that gave the name to the cycle

"Magic word" is a story that has become a textbook. To interest the little readers in reading the work and bring to them the meaning of the polite word "please", the author uses in the story the reception of the fairy tale narrative. All the tips the protagonist of the work receives from a mysterious old man, a bit like a magician.

And indeed, the word suggested by the old man to the boy turns out to be magical. Its use leads to the fact that the wishes of the hero are listened to by everyone: both the sister, and the grandmother, and even the elder brother. The magic word makes people pliable and friendly. The story is written in such a way that, after reading it, the little reader is unlikely to resist the temptation to come up with a sequel. And even better to experience the effect of a magic word on yourself and your loved ones.

The cycle of short stories "The Magic Word"

All the stories of the cycle somehow affect moral, ethical and moral problems. They tell about the life of ordinary average people who live side by side with us. On the example of the heroes of his works, Valentin Oseeva teaches children to correctly comprehend moral laws and rules. Creating her stories to children, Oseeva Valentina Aleksandrovna seems to publish her own unending code of rules, which are formulated or follow from the narrative.

In the writer's stories everything serves to reveal the author's intention, even the names of the works, some of which also ask the main question to which the story is devoted. For example: "Bad", "Good", "Debt", "Who is the boss" and so on.

The problems dealt with in the examples of these works relate not to conditional child sins and virtues, such as disobedience or untidiness, but to serious qualities worthy of any adult person (kindness, sensitivity, honesty) and opposed to them the shortcomings of human nature (meanness, selfishness, rudeness, indifference) . The vital authenticity of the stories of Valentina Oseeva takes for a living and makes us think deeply about the moral problems raised by the author.