Real fantasy.
Not because there are distant planets and space flights, no, we are talking about absolutely realistic events, but still it’s science fiction because...
Well, because think for yourself, can parents, two children (brother and sister) and three grandmothers live in the same apartment, live and live, not know grief, not quarrel and not try to beat each other up a little? No. This can't happen. But the book is precisely about such a friendly family, where grandmothers raise their grandchildren with pleasure and enthusiasm, peacefully distribute household responsibilities and are generally great. And the parents don’t mind. And the grandchildren adore their grandmothers, feel as if they are behind a stone wall and are generally proud of their advanced and fashionable grandmothers.
Well, as for the rest, everything there is from school and outside school life: quarrels with classmates, lunches in the canteen, ballet studio, difficult English, brother-sister life and all that familiar stuff...
I can’t help but mention the illustrations, although, of course, hardly anyone buys such books for the illustrations, but still. The pictures are fire, extremely witty, so, honestly, you can look at them and sincerely laugh. Artists are sometimes very inattentive to the text, but here, on the contrary, every moment is surprisingly subtly captured, and every illustration not only corresponds, but also seems to continue the text. Something like Findus with Petson (not in style, of course, but in the level of fun in the details). And since the book has a large font, younger schoolchildren can easily read it on their own and accurately evaluate the pictures.
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