ABC books written in Perm

The article is devoted to researching of ABC books written by professional philologists and amateurs in the second half of XX – beginning of XXI century in Perm. The “ABC” (1946) by Eugenia Trutneva is studied as an example of individual interpretation of the formed canon. The originality of the “fairy ABC books” made up and written by L.I.Kuzmin (1882) and V.G.Sokolovski (1991) is emphasized and as well as a special role of the illustrations by S.R.Kovalev in their popularity. The analysis revealed some common genre trends in the ABC books written by provincial authors-amateurs in the last decade and the dependence of the ABC books on particular social-economic publisher’s conditions. Typical drawbacks of the Perm amateur ABC books are analysed.