Anka Birdee

By Susanna D. Stark

Even at first sight, Anka is not like other girls. Her lush hair, which she sticks up to the sky like a mushroom, is the eternal cause of ridicule from other children. But she doesn't care about that at all, because Anka has a much more important task, which is why she is late for school almost every day, and dirty and torn to boot.
She has no time for nonsense, because almost every day she travels to distant parts of the world to help animals in need.
That is why the children quarrel. Some take her word for it and envy her, while the others think she is a big liar.
But she doesn't care about their comments, except for the ones that come from Mario. He gets on her nerves insanely.
Although she tries to fight it, she can rarely restrain herself from arguing with him and sometimes even fighting. This boy is just stupid and it's not her fault.
The teachers and her mother sigh and attribute everything to Anka's exuberant imagination. But her friends Ena and Vid will be witnesses themselves that Anka is telling the pure real truth. Because this time they will also go with her to the deepest jungles of Madagascar to save the last blue-legged Bobby in the world from the evil sorceress Tussenella, who decided to devour him.
Whether they arrive on time and whether they manage to save the last specimen of this beautiful bird, you will learn in this story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susanna D. Stark
• Release date: Dec 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201240547

Susanna D. Stark

Susanna D. Stark is a Serbian author of children's books. She writes modern stories and fairy tales for children. In her early childhood she wrote only poetry, and in 2014 she finally started writing books for children. Her stories are very diverse, full of fantasy and unusual characters, and most of them are about nature conservation, especially endangered species, natural phenomena, mythical figures and legends. In her books, she skillfully combines real facts with legends and myths and fictional characters, so that reality and fantasy constantly merge. The reader is immersed in a fantastic world that seems more than real and brings imaginative and interesting characters very close to the reader.To date, she has published several children's books in different languages: The Tisa Flower Hatchi the Sock Monster Electric friends Peter goes to the village Bartolini Anka Birdee Galapagos is far away Baba Yaga - Malicious Travelers Baba Yaga - The Devil's Apprentice Magical Father Advent Calendar The King´s Letter Our Friend Alien Story collection for children  

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THE school bell has long been ringing for the start of school, and the children straighten up on their benches. Hastily, they take out books, notebooks, and pencil cases and arrange them on the bench in front of them. The teacher watches them over her glasses, slides back and forth on her chair, and finally opens the diary. On her left hand, a gold bracelet with six small charms flashes, echoing in soft tones as she writes something in the school diary. The students use the last few minutes until class starts to talk about something more interesting.

Be quiet, children! Are you all present?, she asked the children, raising her stern gaze over her oval glasses.

The children looked at each other and then all directed their gaze to a single empty chair on the second to last bench. The children leaned toward each other and whispered something, covering their mouths with their palms.

We're all here except Anka! Only she's missing!, shouted the boy from the last bench.

Teacher Lenka sighed and was just about to say something when suddenly the door opened and a girl with unusually thick and big hair appeared on it. She had hair for at least seven other heads and was not only voluptuous, but unusually tall. It stuck out of her head like a full moon from the sky, obscuring the view of the children sitting on the bench behind her.

When the whole class saw her, they burst out laughing, Here is she! Anka has arrived!, several girls shouted happily.

Lenka turned to them and slapped the table with her palm, Be quiet, children! Not so loud!, and then turned to the small, skinny girl.

Are you late again? How many times have you already been late? School hasn't even started a whole month and you've already missed at least a dozen classes. What will happen by the end of the year? I know it's hard to get up early when your parents are away, but that's no excuse. You're late for school almost every day. The other kids' parents work too, but they're still at school on time, she said, pointing to all the kids in the class.

Anka slipped her thumbs under the strap of her school bag and propped herself up on her left leg. One of her knee socks was sliding down to her ankles, as if the elastic in it had come loose, while the other was still below her knee but had holes in three or four places.

The teacher looked her over from head to toe and noticed that her skirt was askew and muddy on one side.

Shouldn't you at least come clean and neat in the morning, and why on earth is your skirt torn?

Wait, let me guess! You had to pull the thorn out of a lion's paw today, and he scratched you and got his paws all over you,, she said, pointing to the finger patch on her thumb.

The children burst out laughing at her remark and silenced each other with shining eyes to hear Anka's answer.

The girl's eyes widened to big bumps and she shook her head.

Ah, no, teacher! That was last week on Friday! Then I went to Kenya to pull the thorn out of the lion's paw. Yes, that's right. He accidentally stepped on an acacia tree, leaving a thorn in his paw. He shook his paw left and right to no avail, but the thorn wouldn't fall out on its own. So I had to help him urgently. In the process, I accidentally hurt myself on the thorn because I was in such a hurry to get back to school, pointing to the band-aid on her thumb, she continued.

I had a completely different case yesterday. I had to go to Tanzania urgently, Anka admitted.

To Tanzania? Ah, so! So this time not to Kenya, but to Tanzania? the teacher stared at her, curiously waiting for the answer.

Well, that's what I said! I had to go to Tanzania. The giraffe caught a terrible cold, so I bought her a cough syrup. Her throat hurt so bad she couldn't swallow or eat anything. And if she doesn't eat for days then she can die. I can't let that happen!, and she began to mimic coughing, hunching her shoulders as if to tell her the most normal things in the world.

The children burst out laughing, throwing things at her and telling each other what they thought.

Lenka's cheeks turned slightly red and she raised her glasses to her eyes with her pointer finger, And out of ten billion people in this world, she just invited you to help her? You, Anka and no one else?

What do I know? Maybe she heard from other animals that I'm willing to help, so I guess she remembered me, Anka tried to justify herself.

What a liar you are, Anka! jumped a boy with slicked-back blond hair, blushing completely.

Well, I'm not!, Anka turned to him.

You're a big, big liar! Giraffes don't drink cough syrup! I've never heard such nonsense, the boy insisted.

Anka walked to her chair, dropped her bag next to the table, and turned to face him. All he had to do was sit behind her and keep confronting her, and that annoyed Anka quite a