Crocodile Gena and his friends

This book could be called: CHEBURASHKA AND HIS FRIENDS. But Eduard Uspensky for some reason called her CROCODILE GENA AND HIS FRIENDS. And really, who in the book is more important Cheburashka or Gena the crocodile? Of course, this Gene came up with to write classified ads that he is looking for friends. But without such strange creatures, like Cheburashka, the company would have been too ordinary. In General, among real friends no principal and nonprincipal. Among the notes in the song. Or among letters in the tale. Good friends, whether they are crocodiles, or people, or dogs, encouraging each other just what they are.