Children's art books about social engineering

Hello! Three years ago I gave a lecture on social engineering in a children's camp, trolled children and infuriated counselors a little. As a result, subjects asked what to read. My answer on duty about two books of Mitnik and two books of Cialdini, it seems, is convincing, but only for about the eighth grader and older. If younger, then you need to scratch your head hard.

In general, below is a very short list of the most common works of art. Light, simple, children’s. But about social engineering. Because in every culture there is a joker character who is a little psychopath, a little jester and a little effective specialist. The list is incomplete, and I want to ask you to continue it.

Tom Sawyer
The first, of course, is Tom Sawyer and its unforgettable fence. For this one scene, you can fall in love with a book. And if you think that there is nothing further there, then you are severely mistaken. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) was that good old troll in ordinary life. For example, the most innocuous of his tricks was the replacement of cigarettes in an expensive box with cheap varieties - and the subsequent treating of distinguished guests, knowledgeably relishing such an elite tobacco.

12 chairs
Absolutely magical thing. Oddly enough, you can read from the age of nine. Dofiga of what will be incomprehensible, but it will be interesting and fun (the main thing is to give the child a censored classic version without naked gymnasium students lighting with Kisa Vorobyaninov). The book is just insanely cool in terms of language and in terms of social experience. Well, the continuation of the "Golden Calf" is also pleasing. By the way, if you love Ilf and Petrov, be sure to find the Soviet black-and-white film of the 68th year with Sergei Yursky as Ostap - the dialogues are interestingly put to madness there.

Dunno on the Moon
In general, this is a textbook on economics, where all the basic principles are very clearly and succinctly presented. Well, at the same time - different methods of negotiation and, in general, a lot of things. One feels directly the deep social order of the USSR to expose all the sins of the capitalist community. But in order to expose sins, they had to be very, very detailed to understand. The texture here does not fail. Understood in detail.

Hoja Nasruddin
Two books - “Troublemaker” and “The Enchanted Prince” - are just classics of the genre. There was probably nothing stronger in social engineering before her. Only one scene with a cat before hepatic feeding and after it costs half the book. Or how he clearly explained to Agabek where he got the glassy worms in his eyes ... If you still know the story of Solovyov, from whom the overseers took the second manuscript, and then he was able to return it and publish this book as a cultural monument of the USSR, you generally become extremely happy and proud for the author. In his books, Khoja Nasreddin is, perhaps, my favorite "joker" of all.

It’s worth remembering “Tales of the Dervishes” by Idris Shah (oh, some like stories about the chest , they just make the brain).

Tim Thaler and the sold laughter
Pretty serious thing in terms of explainable concepts. Immerses himself in the world of advertising and marketing as best he can, teaches all sorts of bad wiring.

Ethics Specialist
Good Old Harrison. So old that he even wrote, it seems. And so kind that there is no, but high-tech concept in the book. Naturally, it is read more with pleasure than with benefit.

Dragon
Actually, this is a play by Yevgeny Lvovich Schwartz, but he has a lot of things in the texts. And this thing is read very easily, not like a script. You can come back to her once every two years and every time admire how beautifully everything is written.

The Adventures of Captain Blood
A thing by which one can give the impression of an idealized English gentleman. And to draw a couple of useful things about tactics planning with an emphasis on that part of game theory that talks about simultaneous moves with an opponent. That is, about the prediction of his optimal strategy and the use of his own against his move.

Sherlock Holmes Tales
This thing teaches thinking. Unfortunately, the artistry of the text does not always make it clear in advance all the introductory ones, plus there are a couple of misses to please the plot. But this is the same “smart is sexy” that teaches that thinking is a tool that can be used with very good efficiency in different situations. Actually, probably for the sake of this, I began to make a list.

Outside the plane of books, two films are worth mentioning: the magical “Route 60” and the good old American “12 Angry Men” (do not confuse with a remake of Mikhalkov).

And now a question for you: what else falls into this list?