What kind of strange dog lives in the home of brothers Kolya and Vasya? It resembles a bench, And a duck, and a jackdaw, It waddles along. It has crooked paws and a large nose, Ears hanging to the floor!
Why, it’s a purebred dachshund! American writer Leonard Louis Levinson joked that a dachshund is a dog breed of a certain size, about half a dog high and one and a half dogs long. And Samuel Marshak wrote very cheerful and positive poems. The dog in them is named Vaxa-Klyaksa. The dog is very devoted to its owners, ready to run to the ends of the earth for them, to get a real soccer ball for the boys, and even to engage in battle with an entire pack of rats. But is it ugly or beautiful? Experts at a dog show will answer that question. Psychologically expressive and humorous illustrations for "Vaxa-Klyaksa" were created by the famous artist Aminadav Kanevsky, the creator of the yellow fluffy Murzilka character. His drawings are characterized by lively humor and a comical exaggeration of situations and images. They are done in Kanevsky's favorite style of pen drawing with watercolor coloring.
