Fairy tales about flowers
More than half a century ago, the Latvian writer Anna Sakse wrote down a few small stories for children, which she combined into one book "Fairy tales about flowers". The idea of creating these wonderful fairy tales appeared in the writer during her walk in the forest. Learn what conquered these tales of the heart of young readers.
The fairy tales of Anna Saxe are notable kindness, tenderness, and sometimes pain, which pours from the pages of this book. Each separate fairy tale tells about this or that flower, about its history. Every single flower is someone's life. And someone's life is a separate character.
"Tales of flowers" Sachs talk about how the destinies of people, who lived in this or that era. At many characters the destiny developed so that they turned to various flowers. The answer to the question, why it happened, can be found on the pages of this children's book, where trees are able to talk with human voices, and flowers can love.
In every tale goes a story about an individual flower. It can be forest or simply grow in a flower bed. Absolutely inconspicuous, like hare cabbage, or charming, like an orchid or water lily. But each time readers see the indescribable beauty that lies behind the name of the plant.
And that's how every plant is endowed with its own destiny. What determined this fate? Of course, the character of the person who turned into this flower. The writer tried to carefully invest the whole range of experiences, emotions of a person and his character in this or that flower. What happened, everyone can find out by reading the fairy tales of a Latvian writer.
Anna Saxe wrote "Tales of Flowers" specially for children. But despite this, the book is very popular with adults. After all, sometimes they want to immerse themselves in the world of them.childhood, where their parents read these charming tales, while the children themselves looked at colorful illustrations on which the most beautiful flowers were depicted. Read and you tell your children these tales of flowers!
Quotations from the book
"- Oh my God, this is my last flower, - withSigh said the Wild Rose one morning. "If only the Morning wind came back until the flower faded." However, he will love me and without flowers, because he was the first and only one who saw my soul, my deep, pure soul. How beautiful he then said about it. "
"If Camelia has more time, he, perhaps,something and would have thought up, but now there was no time to think, it was necessary to act. He grabbed the forest beauty, hid it under a wide cassock and carried it home. All the way to Dryad's mouth was clamped, only in the room where the monk seated her on the bed, she exclaimed:
- What have you done? Now my tree will wither ...
"Let it dry up." Are there few trees in the forest? Camelius consoled her.
"As you do not understand, if my tree withers, I will die," Dryadha said sadly.
