

With the time, Doono finds the other Mites, Dunno's lies are discovered and he's mocked by boy-Mites, but consoled by girl-Mites. Then Bendum and Twistum return to Greenville, and some Kite Town dwellers join them and also gather harvest, including Nails who used to be a hooligan. After being taken out, the boy-Mites help girl-Mites to gather harvest, and Bendum and Twistum go to the Kite Town to repair girl-Mites' car. Honeysuckle, does not want to take all the other boy-Mites together out because she thinks that boy-Mites cause a lot of trouble, so the boy-Mites are taken out in pairs. Soon it became clear that the only boy-Mite who has to be cured is Shot (who meanwhile lost Dot that has run back to the Flower Town), but the hospital physician, Dr. When he visits the hospital, he talks boy-Mites into supporting his version of facts, in exchange promising to help them out of hospital as soon as possible. As Doono (who escaped from the balloon by parachute before the crash) is absent, Dunno describes himself to girl-Mites as balloon inventor and boy-Mites' leader. The balloon eventually crashes near the Greenville, inhabited only by girl-Mites (boy-Mites had left for the Kite Town where they can carry out freely their boyish activities), who took balloonists to the hospital to care for them. Gunky waves to Dunno from the ground but Dunno shuns him. By this time, half the town still does not believe the balloon will be able to fly, but the balloon successfully rises off the ground, and all the shorties of Flower Town cheer. The day of the departure comes, and Doono, Dunno, and fourteen other Mites come on board. Everyone helps with preparations except for Dunno, who is too busy bossing everyone around and providing useless advice.

The parachutes and other supplies are loaded, and sixteen seats are accommodated for. A large rubber balloon is then inflated, fastened to the basket, and filled with hot air. He and his friends begin extracting rubber, weaving the basket, and making emergency parachutes out of dandelions. He then gets into a fight with his best friend Gunky for not ending his friendships with the girl-shorties Pee-Wee and Tinkle (generally, boy-Mites did not like girl-Mites, and vice versa).ĭoono proposes to build a hot air balloon and go on an adventure. Next, ignoring the warnings of Swifty, Dunno crashes Bendum and Twistum's car into the Cucumber River and ends up in the hospital. Then he proceeds to try music, art, and poetry, but his unorthodox endeavors only irritate his friends, and he is forced to quit.

First, he becomes convinced that the sun is falling and manages to scare half the town before Doono, Dunno's brainy antithesis (his name is derived from the Russian " знаю", I know) clears everything up. In Flower Town, Dunno gets into heaps of trouble.

The illustration for The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends. In Nosov's universe, each shorty occupies his/her own niche in the community and is named accordingly. All fruits and vegetables growing in Flower Town are, however, their regular size, so the Shorties invent sophisticated methods of growing and harvesting them. They are described to be sized like "medium cucumbers", a quality that has earned them the name "shorties" or "mites". The three fairy tale novels follow the adventures of the little fictional childlike people living in "Flower Town".
