Eleanor's secret. In fact, to get to a fairy-tale country from our world is possible only in one way. Do not climb into an old closet or wait for a hurricane in your own garden on a clear day. All you have to do is take out a shabby book from the shelf that my grandmother once held in her wrinkled hands. In those spring years, she was a guide - a gentle half-whisper carried to the cave of Ali Baba and the forest of Red Riding Hood. From generation to generation, fairy tales taught, entertained, gave children a dream. Who knows what would have happened to each of us now, if not in our childhood Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. The creators of the cartoon “Kerity, the home of fairy tales” settled familiar childhood heroes in the dusty attic of Aunt Eleanor, where the first editions of all fairy tales are stored. But unlike literary characters, people are mortal, and therefore the old woman passes her secret to her little nephew Nathaniel, who must become the new keeper of the fairy-tale monastery, read a magic spell, without which the characters of the books will disappear from the world of people forever. One problem is that Nathaniel in his sevens can not read.
Cartoon Dominic Monferi does not offer the viewer exciting adventures, but immerses in the atmosphere of animated fantasy. In the idyllic French coast, where the ocean goes beyond the horizon, and sunbunnies penetrate the room through the windows, the very place for magic. There are no laughing villains, just as there is no obsessive, duty humor - without overloading the tape, Monferi speaks in simple language about no less simple things. Nathaniel himself is like a collective image of the hero of an old legend - an ugly and cowardly boy, who is destined to become better in every sense. But the plot is not limited to personal metamorphosis. Behind the fairy tale, the creators of Kerity concealed seemingly mundane plots: a brother-sister conflict, a clash with an dishonest person, a lack of faith in their own strength. It is quite natural that all the contradictions here are resolved in favor of the heroes, because this is what always happens in good fairy tales. However, the most important and perhaps the most “adult” idea of “Kerity” is the need to preserve cultural heritage for posterity. The plot of the cartoon revolves around saving the characters of children's books from oblivion, and the only person who is able to do this is forced to learn to read. Only then will the magical world of literature become truly multifaceted when you can enter it yourself. The book must live as long as civilization exists, because for so many years man has not invented another, more capacious way of expressing his thoughts.