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This book was created to help parents and teachers. It raises an important question: how to talk to children about the national tragedy of the Holodomor and collectivisation. Based on family legends, the autobiographical narrative eventually takes on the dimensions of a parable, where hope and truth triumph over the great Calamity. Expressive dynamic illustrations deepen this parable dimension: colours, flowers, and paintings eventually heal the black wound of pain.
A first-grader girl comes to her grandparents' house for the first school holidays. In the village, she has a lot of interesting things to do: cook pork potatoes, collect nuts, cut pumpkins for seeds... eat fragrant mnyshiks - fresh from the oven. But then one evening she finds out that for some reason her grandmother can't read. How did this happen? Did her grandmother skip school? This is a story about family memory, the importance of dialogue between generations, mutual trust and gratitude.