About the book: 2002 / Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) Polish writer, teacher, doctor. In addition to “King Matt the First” (1923) and its sequel “King Matt on a Desert Island,” he wrote more than 20 books about raising teenagers, including “How to Love a Child” (1914). He died in a Nazi concentration camp along with 200 children from the Warsaw ghetto - his pupils. The first complete translation of the story into Russian was made by Muza Pavlova and published by the Warsaw publishing house Polonia in 1958 (subsequently reprinted several times). In Russia, this translation was first published in Moscow in 1992.