Constanze Spengler

A high-spirited story about an enterprising only child and a father's juggle to work from home Mika's father works from home and he's very busy! He can never find time for the promised swimming trip. So Dad allows Mika to choose herself a pet from the store while he finishes the project-something quiet like a mouse. And so begins a wonderfully turbulent story in which Mika brings home one animal after another... The mouse gets lost so she gets a dog to find it. the dog is followed by a seal, the seal a penguin. How many animals can come to stay before a harassed father notices? This is a high-spirited story about an enterprising only child and a father's juggle to work from home.

Papa ochen zanjat: on rabotaet nad vazhnym proektom. A poskolku rabotaet on iz doma, to prosit svoego syna Miku ne otvlekat ego. No Mike skuchno? ved on rebjonok i emu khochetsja s kem-to poigrat. Mika prosit razreshenija zavesti sebe domashnee zhivotnoe, chtoby bylo s kem provesti vremja, poka papa zanjat. Nemnogo podumav, papa dajot Mike svojo soglasie i kosheljok, s kotorym malchik otpravljaetsja v zoomagazin. Tam Mika pokupaet sebe myshku-peschanku. I oni otlichno igrajut v prjatki po vsej gostinoj. Pravda, potom myshka prjachetsja tak khorosho, chto Mika snova idjot v zoomagazin i na etot raz vozvraschaetsja so schenkom, potomu chto u sobak otlichnyj njukh, i oni mogut otyskat kogo ugodno. Nu a dalshe... dalshe Mike prishlos sbegat v zoomagazin eschjo neskolko raz. I vot, kogda k voskresenju papa, nakonets, zakonchil svoj vazhnyj proekt i ogljadelsja po storonam, on obnaruzhil, chto za stolom na kukhne sidit i zavtrakaet bolshaja druzhnaja kompanija: Mika s myshkoj-peschankoj, schenok, tjulen, pingvin, popugaj i slonjonok. Perevod: Vinogradova Marina

A high-spirited story about an enterprising only child and a father's juggle to work from home Mika's father works from home and he's very busy! He can never find time for the promised swimming trip. So Dad allows Mika to choose herself a pet from the store while he finishes the project-something quiet like a mouse. And so begins a wonderfully turbulent story in which Mika brings home one animal after another... The mouse gets lost so she gets a dog to find it. the dog is followed by a seal, the seal a penguin. How many animals can come to stay before a harassed father notices? This is a high-spirited story about an enterprising only child and a father's juggle to work from home.