Adventures in Writania. A Linguistic Folklore Tale

There is no language more mysterious than English. It sounds different from how it is written, it is written differently from how it is read. And it is generally not translatable. At least, not logically. How can one learn such a language? This is what the kind dreamer Roma has been struggling with since the beginning of the second grade, along with his grandmother Galya, the cat Cassius, teacher Marina Ivanovna, and the entire second B.

But if second grade included linguistics and the philosophy of language, no one would suffer, and everyone would eagerly learn any foreign language. Is there logic in language? Where did the ubiquitous villain Misty Albino come from? Who sent the wolves into wells to speak with the water moths? Why do the inhabitants of Writania have winged bread and red cats? Roma and his Writanian friend Fox will have to solve and break the spell to save grandmother, Cassius, and classmates from the invasion of the ancient Romans. And at the same time, understand why you can't bake metro tokens into pudding, and airplane tickets into Christmas cookies. And find out what terrible secret all English teachers named Marina Ivanovna hold, but will never tell. This tale was written by an English teacher who recently returned from Writania, and then managed to give top marks for the corrections work before the New Year. Just lucky.

The book is aimed at children aged 6 and up.