I want to tell you about the book of the german writer Gudrun Mebs "Grandma! Frieder yells again". In german, the title of the book sounds like "Oma, schreit der Frieder".
Why does Frider scream and why does he scream his grandmother? Because this is a small, restless, mischievous grandson who has a loving, very caring grandmother and she continually grumbles. This is the second book from the series and the grandmother has to grumble at her grandson is already the second book.
But this is all, of course, extraordinarily funny and instructive. Each story in this book begins with the phrase "Grandma! - Frieder screams "- this is a story about how the child gradually learns what can and should not be done. Of course, he is mistaken and it is the process of trial and error that serves as a plot for the story.
Well, for example, he can not distract the grandmother from her garden works, and she likes to water flowers and flower beds. Eventually, when she is engaged in her garden business at the other end of the plot, Frieder decides the only way to express her feelings to her grandmother. He runs, picks up a large bouquet of flowers from her favorite flower bed and gives it to her grandmother. What grandmother feels when she sees that all her precious flowers are torn and donated to her, it's quite difficult to describe, but it is possible.
First of all, this book is about mutual patience, which should be shown by both sides and grandmother (parent) and granddaughter (child). Such opposition: the adult child, where on concrete, very amusing examples, various reactions to a situation are shown. Sometimes a grandmother gets angry, sometimes she does not, but she is above all a wise person and remembers that love is most important.
Dealing without such abstract words, without such formulations, Gudrun Mebs very well embodied all this in the text.
Read these stories about a mischievous boy and the phrase "Grandma! - Frieder screams again", will accompany any broken cup, overturned plate or some other trouble in your house. This is an absolutely wonderful book, it gives a lot of laughter and teach to be patient.
More about this book you can say, something very important, that its illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner. This is an artist who created huge, magical books: "Autumn Book", "Winter Book", "Spring Book" and "Summer Book." These are albums on which you can travel, such stories about the life of the town, so the series is called "Gorodok". And this artist, as it turned out, works wonderfully in the genre of book illustration not of such a large format as the books listed above, not for the smallest ones.
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