Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)

The first issue brought to your attention is collected from the works of the members of the editorial board, dedicated to those directions that are close to the compilers: children's literature of the 1920s, the influence of government institutions on children's literature, verse analysis of poetry for children, children's topics about adults literature, mass genres of children's literature, bibliographic descriptions of publications about children's literature. We decided that this is a good way to introduce ourselves to our readers. Researchers from Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, and St. Petersburg (M. Litovskaya, S. Maslinskaya, A. Sadrieva, A. Senkina, I. Sergienko) joined forces to create the "Children's Readings" project. We tried to build the almanac so that the "academic" part in it would coexist with literary criticism and informational and bibliographic ones. One of the tasks that we are pursuing is to collect old small-circulation publications that are of scientific interest today.