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SummaryAlpamys, a five-year-old boy, suffers from the fact that he is not yet allowed into school. His father learns him things that school doesn't teach him: for example, how to find your way around the steppe, how to recognize birds in flight, how to overcome your fear, how to be friendly and respectful towards the villagers. But this is not enough for Alpamys. He practices strokes in his cousin's homework book, learns the spelling of Warya and arithmetic at Kalichan. And he learns above all from the old wise Mynar-ata to think about life. When the old man dies, Alpamys is deeply struck and yet he practices with Kalichan for the Teachers' Day celebration to prove that he too belongs in school.
(Source: development defa-spektrum GmbH, 2012)
