The Little Bear Who Wanted to Play the Cello and Others

By Ruzanna Topchyan and Susan Shorter

This book is the first of a series of fables that the author is aiming to publish. Some of the fables have been read to schoolchildren, who found them interesting. The author hopes that more children will get interested in these fables and will appreciate the freedom that the fable, as a genre, can provide to the imagination. The author encourages readers to use their imagination and to create their own fables.


We are surrounded by fables. We just need to have closer look at life to identify the themes. You can create a fable yourself. Give it a try! - Ruzanna Topchyan

You are reading the first book of the author in English.
The second book is coming soon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491872505

Ruzanna Topchyan

Ruzanna Topchyan is an educator. Literature has always had a very special place in her life. Since 2002, she has been a member to the Armenian Writers’ Union. While being an avid reader, she translated British and American literature into Armenian. These translations have been published in the Armenian journal Youth and newspapers that would publish literary work. For years, she also translated British and American humor for the Armenian Radio Program, and wrote scripts for the Armenian TV literary program. Later, she started writing her own short stories and children’s fables. Some of these short stories have been published in Armenia as individual pieces. Children’s fables have been published in three books in Armenian: The Dream of the Bear, The Goose Quack-Quack, and The Stolen Time (Christmas fable).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Little Bear Who Wanted to Play the Cello

The Spider Who Could Spin an Amazing Web

The Quick Mousie Who Wanted to Make Friends

About the Author

About the Book

The Little Bear Who Wanted to Play the Cello

When the bear cub grew up a little, he said: Mummy, I want to play the cello. Please, find a cello for me.

Mother Bear did not know what to think. Sunny, said Mother Bear, who has ever seen a bear playing the cello? Everyone will laugh at you!

Let them laugh if they want. I must play the cello, insisted the cub.

Mother Bear became quite concerned. She thought to herself, Hmm! What a problem! What does my son want? I have never seen a bear playing the cello. Other little bears never expressed such a desire. Other little bears would run and play naughty games. They would run to the water to catch fish. None of them has ever uttered a word about a cello, but my son is quite different. He either wanders in the woods by himself or, hearing a bird sing or a cricket play music, leaves everything and runs in the direction of the sound to listen for hours. Mother Bear was not quite sure whether that was good or bad, especially because at those instances the bear cub would say, What a melody. I must definitely play the cello.

Because Mother Bear never saw a bear playing the cello, she decided not to pay any attention to her son’s request. Meanwhile, the little bear would wander in the forest daydreaming about nothing but playing the cello. One night he had a strange dream. In