- M. Children's Literature, 1968 . — 823 s. In the pages of this book, Korney Chukovsky reproduces the thoughts and feelings of younger schoolchildren and preschools in the framework of language research. The words he collected are unusually interesting and funny . The book will be useful both for teachers and for a wide range of readers. "Living as Life" is Chukovsky's main book devoted to the Russian language, its history and modern life, the laws of its development. The author’s undisguised and passionate interest in the word as the beginning of all beginnings in combination with an objective scientific analysis of speech is a distinctive feature of Chukovsky’s book, which made it so popular and readable in our country.