This is a great story. The text was adapted well to a readable level for my beginner Russian skills. The story is broken up into sections with some basic reading comprehension questions and footnotes. However, I didn't find the questions to be that difficult and the footnotes (also in Russian) rarely made things more clear. Often, they just replaced one set of difficult words with another. Still, Tokareva is a fantastic writer and this story is well-suited, especially after the adaptations, to reading practice. ( )