Geroi Anatoliya Rybakova horosho znakomy uzhe neskol'kim pokoleniyam detej, lyubitelej veselyh i opasnyh priklyuchenij. Lyuboznatel'nyj i chestnyj Krosh uvlekaetsya rassledovaniem zagadochnyh proisshestvij. Ego volnuet ne tol'ko to, chto proizoshlo ryadom s nim, no i to, chto sluchilos' za mnogo let do ego rozhdeniya. V povesti "Kanikuly Krosha" on stalkivaetsya s tajnoj ischeznoveniya kollektsii starinnyh yaponskih miniatyurnyh skul'pturi vosstanavlivaet chestnoe imya obolgannogo kollektsionera.
Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (Russian: Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков; January 14, 1911 – December 23, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat tetralogy, novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk, Bronze Bird, etc. One of the last of his works was his memoir The Novel of Memoirs (Роман-Воспоминание) telling about all the different people (from Stalin and Yeltsin, to Okudzhava and Tendryakov) he met during his long life. Writer Maria Rybakova is his granddaughter.
Новые приключения школьника Кроша, которому на этот раз довелось столкнуться с беспринципными алчными спекулянтами. Заметно слабее первой части. Очень много назидательных вставок про моральный облик советского пионера, очень много неуклюжих инфодампов по истории искусства. Самая неудачная часть трилогии, можно не читать.