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Senelio pasakos
190 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1996
About the author
Pranas Mašiotas
43 books3 followersPranas Mašiotas was a Lithuanian activist and educator best known as children's writer and translator. Born in Suvalkija to a family of Lithuanian farmers, Mašiotas attended Marijampolė Gymnasium and studied mathematics at Moscow University.
As a Catholic, he could not obtain employment in Lithuania and took temporary clerical jobs in Łomża and Riga before becoming math teacher at the Riga Gymnasium in 1891. He held this job until World War I forced him to evacuate to Voronezh where he became director of the Lithuanian girls' and boys' gymnasiums. He returned to Lithuania in 1918 and started working on organizing the education system in the newly independent country. He was vice-minister at the Ministry of Education from 1919 to 1923. He then became director of the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Klaipėda. He retired in 1929 and focused on literary work. He died on 14 September 1940.
Mašiotas was very active in Lithuanian cultural life. He joined and organized various Lithuanian societies, including the Lithuanian Scientific Society and the Žvaigždė Society which he chaired for about a decade. He contributed about 600 articles to the Lithuanian press. In total, he published about 140 books of which about 30 are original (others are translations or based on works by others). He mainly published children's fiction, textbooks for schools, and popular science books. He translated such children's classics as Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels and Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner.
As a Catholic, he could not obtain employment in Lithuania and took temporary clerical jobs in Łomża and Riga before becoming math teacher at the Riga Gymnasium in 1891. He held this job until World War I forced him to evacuate to Voronezh where he became director of the Lithuanian girls' and boys' gymnasiums. He returned to Lithuania in 1918 and started working on organizing the education system in the newly independent country. He was vice-minister at the Ministry of Education from 1919 to 1923. He then became director of the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Klaipėda. He retired in 1929 and focused on literary work. He died on 14 September 1940.
Mašiotas was very active in Lithuanian cultural life. He joined and organized various Lithuanian societies, including the Lithuanian Scientific Society and the Žvaigždė Society which he chaired for about a decade. He contributed about 600 articles to the Lithuanian press. In total, he published about 140 books of which about 30 are original (others are translations or based on works by others). He mainly published children's fiction, textbooks for schools, and popular science books. He translated such children's classics as Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels and Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner.
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November 4, 2025
Prano Mašioto „Senio pasakos“ mane sužavėjo savo ramybe ir paprastumu. Tai ta knyga, kurią atsivertus atrodo, kad atsirandi senoje sodyboje, kur išmintingas senelis pasakoja istorijas prie krosnies ar po vakaro žvaigždėmis. Pasakos trumpos, labai aiškios, bet kartu turi savyje daug šilumos ir gyvenimiškos išminties.
Labiausiai patiko, kad kiekviena istorija turi savo mintį, bet ji pateikiama švelniai, be moralizavimo. Vaikams tai – puiki proga mokytis empatijos, atsakomybės ir gerumo, o suaugusiems – gražus priminimas apie tikras, paprastas vertybes.
Ši knyga paliko jaukų, raminantį įspūdį. Ji labai tinkama skaityti vakarais su vaikais: pasakos trumpučės, mielos ir šviesios, ir po jų lieka graži nuotaika. Man ši knyga pasirodė tarsi nedidelis lobis iš senesnių laikų – tikra lietuviškos literatūros klasika, kurią verta turėti namuose.
Labiausiai patiko, kad kiekviena istorija turi savo mintį, bet ji pateikiama švelniai, be moralizavimo. Vaikams tai – puiki proga mokytis empatijos, atsakomybės ir gerumo, o suaugusiems – gražus priminimas apie tikras, paprastas vertybes.
Ši knyga paliko jaukų, raminantį įspūdį. Ji labai tinkama skaityti vakarais su vaikais: pasakos trumpučės, mielos ir šviesios, ir po jų lieka graži nuotaika. Man ši knyga pasirodė tarsi nedidelis lobis iš senesnių laikų – tikra lietuviškos literatūros klasika, kurią verta turėti namuose.
August 17, 2017
Pirma savarankiškai mokyklai perskaityta knyga. Labai nepatiko, užtrukau visą vasarą, bet galiausiai perskaičiau, nes reikėjo, nors buvo labai neįdomu.
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