Four-year-old Alexandra shares with us her impressions of a book she has just read.
“I have never seen the cow Mamu Mu and her friend the raven Krax before. I enjoyed reading about them, they are funny. Spring has come, leaves have appeared on the trees. Mom Mu began to clean up the mess, cleaned the dust from the window and put her bouquet of snowdrops there. I liked most of all just about the flowers. Mama Mu puts them in milk! To the wrong place! We’re putting it in the water. I’ll find granny’s flowers in the country, which she doesn’t feel sorry for, and I’ll try that too. Krux flew in and swore, and spoke only about what Mama Mu did not do, but about what she did, he did not say anything. He himself put things in a huge pile in his nest and boasted: this is the order I have, I put everything in a pile! And he began to clean her place: he turned off the light so that the dust could not be seen, and then he painted everything white, even the cows, — everything became white as snow. Mom Mu got angry: clean it all up and wash us! Mom Mu, of course, cleans better than Kruks, she’s too lazy, but she does it. And Krux is more of a hooligan. I love helping my mom. But there is laziness. Then I don’t even wash my hands, turn on the TV and watch cartoons. A hundred times I was too lazy, but finally I began to clean up again — just like Mama Mu.
«Krax Brings Order» by Yui and Thomas Wieslander. Translation from Swedish by Irina Matytsina. Albus Corvus, 26 p.