[2] He developed strong interest in children's literature and became an active member of the Sreda literary group, where he was closely associated with Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin and Ivan Bunin, among others.

[3] Shklyar's play for children The Tale of Bonny Prince Albert (Сказка о прекрасном короле Альберте) earned him the Griboyedov Prize in 1914.

[4] Music for another play of his, Soap Bubbles (Мыльные пузыри), produced by Nikolai Sinelnikov for the Kharkov Russian Drama Theatre in 1922 was written by the then totally unknown Isaak Dunayevsky.

His later works included the short story collections Sacred Place (Заповедное место, 1931), Black Lake (Чёрное озеро, 1934) and Land of Youth (Страна молодежи, 1934).

The re-newed interest in his legacy led to staging of the play Bum and Youla in 2006 in Samara (originally directed by Sophia Khalyutina in 1918) and the reissue of some of his best-known work in 2011.