Reading marathon "Balalar adebietinin baiteregi"

This year, on October 13, Yessentai Yerbotin, a Pavlodar children's poet, writer and radio journalist, would have turned 80 years old. He was born in the aul of Akshi, Bayanaul region, in a peasant family. He graduated from Tortkuduk high school in 1959. After serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces, he entered the Karaganda Pedagogical Institute, which he successfully graduated in 1967. In the last year of the institute, he started working at the Karaganda regional radio. From 1967 to 1981 He was the editor of the Pavlodar regional committee on television and radio broadcasting, from 1981 until the end of his life - his own correspondent for Kazakh radio in the Pavlodar region. He began to write during his school years. The first poems were published on the pages of the regional newspaper "Kyzyl Tu" and the children's magazine "Baldyrgan" in 1959.

Yessentai Yerbotin is the author of the collections of poems "Ornek" (1975), "Example" (1977), "My friend" (1984), "When grandfathers were children" (1987), "Journey to the steppe" (1991), "White snow town "and others. His poems were published in translations on the pages of the Ukrainian magazine "Barvinok", Belarusian - "Veselka", Russian - "Murzilka".

Every year schoolchildren of the region take part in the "Yerbotin Readings". This year, the coronavirus pandemic made adjustments to the event and readers of the children's literature department took part in a reading marathon dedicated to the anniversary of the poet.