Well, well, future reader, listen now, what's in store for you. In front of you is an extremely thin book with twenty fairy tales. They are short, you gobble them up like warm cookies. And just like with cookies, after you've swallowed one, you feel that it has whetted your appetite for the next one.

Positives: You don't drop it halfway through and wonder the next day where you got to and what happened there. You remember it easily. You can easily tell it to your child later. You don't confuse her with the painfully familiar fairy tales that all children grow up with, because Vesela Flamburari is not a fan of Puss in Boots and donkeys spitting yolks. No! Down with the classics, long live the F sharp! Long live the leg of the old table that dreams of fame. Let's welcome with applause the short way, the three-leaf clover and the wise laluger. Let's look at the spiders and not be fooled that they are all very hardworking. Let's think about the fate of the old peeling hotels, about the mission of the storks and the problems that haunted houses have.

Negatives: Anyone who reads Flamburari's fairy tales will inevitably come to the conclusion that she has a lot of problems at home: the roof is probably leaking and in need of repair, her furniture needs urgent replacement, she needs a cobweb removal company and whatnot not yet... But:

More positives:

The fact that instead of suppressing her, it has pushed her to compose and turn problems into exquisite fairy tales is too heartening.

This is what the book led me to think: Don't grumble, don't panic, don't give in to discouragement in the face of the failures that come our way every day. Turn them, if you have the Flamburari talent, into entertaining stories and entertain others with them. It is so exciting and healthy that even the artist Radostina Neikova gave in, infected and filled the book with such expressive illustrations that make the unusual characters quite real.

But besides the author, illustrator and publisher, the books have something else in common! All the fairy tales in them are written with a lot of heart, with enthusiasm and inspiration, with love and attention to children. And listening to the stories, the children feel it! And that's the most important thing, right?

Dozens of colorful pages filled with all kinds of stories - long and short, cheerful and even more cheerful, entertaining and instructive. And with all kinds of characters - from water droplets and bright stars, through tiny spiders and stubborn donkeys, all the way to wizards and spirits! Even for pumpkins and corks! Have you read these? I bet not!

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