Skazki Pushkina ne imeiut vozrastnykh granitc. Oni ne tolko bogaty svoimi nezabyvaemymi siuzhetami, no eshche i stilisticheski bezuprechny. "Skazka o zolotom petushke" predosteregaet ot soblazna reshat svoi problemy volshebnymi sredstvami, nadeias na drugikh i ne tratia sobstvennykh usilii. V skazke govoritsia o tcare Dadone i udivitelnom podarke mudretca вÐ"†zolotom petushke, kotoryi preduprezhdal o priblizhenii vragov. V otvet Dadon obeshchal mudretcu ispolnit liuboe ego zhelanie. S poiavleniem petushka voinstvennye sosedi prismireli. I vot petushok trizhdy preduprezhdaet o kakoi-to opasnosti na vostoke. No vmesto vrazheskikh voisk snachala oba syna tcaria, a zatem i sam Dadon nakhodiat nezemnoi krasoty shamakhanskuiu tcaritcu. Ona i okazyvaetsia tem samym vragom, o kotorom preduprezhdal zolotoi petushok: ot nee pogibaiut dva syna Dadona, oba ikh voiska, ot nee gibnet mudretc, nastoichivo trebuiushchii u Dadona ispolneniia ego neostorozhnogo obeshchaniia. Ot nee gibnet i sam staryi Dadon... Pereizdanie knigi podgotovleno po originalam risunkov Vladimira Konashevicha.