This book contains Russian and English versions of an old Spanish folktale. "Merry Fairies" is a hilarious fairy tale about fairies who helped out a lazy Spanish maid. Good-humored and surprising, the story teaches how to keep up high spirits even in hard times and makes the reader muse. You can read the story in the language that you are learning and verify your understanding by reading the opposite page in which the same text is written in your native language. No need to open the dictionary. We use simple phrases to make the book easy to understand for beginners.

Author Biography

This book was created and designed by Svetlana Bagdasaryan and Eliza Garibian. Starting from their childhood, authors were fascinated by fairy tales and now they decided to share their favorite stories with you. They are retelling folktales in enjoyable manner and illustrating them with colorful pictures. Also, by choosing to publish bilingual books, they are helping readers to learn new languages while following captivating plots of the stories. Svetlana Bagdasaryan specializes also in oil painting and covers a wide variety of genre, from ballet and portraits to landscapes and still life pieces. She has participated in a number of exhibitions and has been selected to take part in the IX Florence Biennale 2013. Eliza Garibian enjoys learning languages. She uses bilingual books in her studies and knows how useful and entertaining they can be.