The Whispering Palms: Learn Russian with Subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"
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Mori helps her parents in their activities so that they can live in harmony with nature.
The Whispering Palms
By Deepa Gangwani
and Tina Suchanek
Mori
was a little girl
with big brown eyes.
She lived
with her parents
in a beautiful coconut
grove,
next to a small
blue lake.
Every morning,
she balanced a big
empty basket on her head
as she walked
down to the lake.
Her mother
followed with the laundry
and her father
brought the
big fishing net.
Her mother washed the clothes
on a stone next to the lake,
while her father
went fishing.
He dragged the net ashore,
and they
collected the fish
in a big basket.
Sometimes
a turtle got stuck
in the net,
but Mori always hurried
to the rescue.
One sunny morning
while fishing with her father,
Mori said:
"If we catch
so many fish,
one day
there won't be any left!"
Her mother laughed
and sent her off
to school.
Under the shade of the trees,
Mori's mother fell into an
uneasy sleep.
She dreamt of a lake
with no fish,
while the wind
in the palm leaves whispered:
"The waters
and the land
have always taken
care of your family,
so you have to
take care of them in return."
She awoke
with tears in her eyes,
for she didn't know
how to
bring up Mori
without selling
enough fish.
All afternoon
she sat,
weaving coconut
mats
and thinking about her dream.
That night
Mori heard her parents
whisper
as the oil lamp
burned deep
into the night.
The next morning,
her father gave her
a smaller basket.
"How can we
carry all the fish
in this little basket?"
Mori asked.
"We will only take
as many
fish as will fit
inside this basket,"
he replied.
Mori was
puzzled.
When she came back from school,
she was happy
to find her mother making soap
and oil
from the coconuts.
Mori swiftly climbed up
a tree
to get
more coconuts,
but her mother cautioned:
"Don't pluck them;
we must only use
what the tree gives us."
Her father added:
"We have taken
only fallen coconuts
for these things.
Look,
we've even made this soap
with a jasmine
flower inside!"
From that day on,
the family
made brooms
from the palm leaves
and wove mats
from coconut fiber.
They took soap,
oil, and only
a small number of fish
to the market.
When Mori grew older,
she loved to
carve tiny
turtles
out of coconut shells
and always
wore one around her neck.
Illustrations: Emanuele Scanziani
Music & Art Director: Holger Fetter
Animation: Alfrin Multimedia
Translation: Vladimir Iatsenko
Narration: Anyuta Palasheyska
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