Two series
Each series is its own age and mood. You can start with either one, but it's more rewarding to go in order and grow up together with Khryuchik.
Series 1
3 — 7 years
Warm family stories, humor, first discoveries, and the big feelings of a little piglet. Books to read aloud — and to live through together.
4 books
Open the seriesSeries 2
8 — 12+ years
Change, roads, new countries, and the search for oneself. The stories are based on the author's real impressions — so they smell of the sea, the train, and a real morning.
3 books · and more to come
Open the seriesWhat's inside
These aren't lectures. It's what Khryuchik does himself — and the reader quietly does after him.
01
Khryuchik doesn't wait for things to sort themselves out. He tries, asks, takes a step.
02
Didn't work — try again. Out of strength — rest and try once more.
03
If you started it — see it through. If you promised — show up.
04
Small kind acts add up to a big life — that's the central plot of the series.
05
There's light in any story. Sometimes you just have to be the first to notice it.
06
Khryuchik's main lesson: between "I want" and "I did it" lies "I tried".
The hero's path
Move the marker to walk through the series by age — from the earliest fairy tales to stories about the big roads.
Garden beds, a bicycle, a new friend across the fence. Khryuchik learns to take responsibility for what he started.
Khryuchik when he was little
Khryuchik at the cottage
Yulia Bilurka · author
The author's voice
Many of the cities, trains, and morning kitchens in the books are real. The author pours her experience of moving, travelling, and growing up into stories where Khryuchik lives through the same things — only funnier and a little braver than we do.
That's why "Khryuchik's travels" can be read as a guide to emotions: the fear of the new, the thrill of the first sea, the silence of an unfamiliar apartment — it's all there.