 Alexey N. Tolstoy (1882–1945) wrote "Buratino", a light-hearted and shortened adaptation of Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio".Alexander Volkov (1891–1977) introduced fantasy fiction to Soviet children with his loose translation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", published as "The Wizard of the Emerald City" in 1939, and then wrote a series of five sequels, unrelated to Baum.Other notable authors include Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976), Lazar Lagin (1903–1979), Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959) and Vladimir Suteev (1903–1993).