It Happened Like This: Stories and Poems

By Daniil Kharms

After his work for adults was censored in the late 1920s, Daniil Kharms (1905-42) began writing the stories & poems that would establish him as one of today's best-loved children's authors in Russia.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374336350
• ISBN13: 9780374336356
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 47 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

if you like absurdist

I've been a long-time Kharms fan & was delighted to find this book. I immediately sat down on the floor to read the whole thing & laughed and laughed. I bought it for my one-year-old niece, who is certainly too young to appreciate it -- but hopefully will develop to appreciate this lovely little nugget. The humor may not be for the un-funny, so I'd advise you to look up some Kharms excerpts (there's plenty free on the internet) first to see if it's too your tastes.