Papa sewed the patch showing my parents’ wedding and, a few years later, the patch of me as a baby in their arms. There are two more bannisters to slide down, past more frowning ancestors and a faded and torn tapestry of the royal crest that puffs dust into the air in annoyance. Sometimes Dinara and Luka and the others at school tease me about living in a castle and being descended from royalty. So I help make her comfortable on the bed she has next to the stove, and she starts snoring happily almost as soon as her head touches the pillow, her mouth wide open. When some of my friends from school arrive, we stack up more pumpkins into the shape of a giant, who manages to look both benevolent and slightly angry.

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Babusya’s talk of a storm and a journey scampers through my mind, like a mouse looking for seeds in the meadow. After the revolution that promised to make everyone equal, Castle Mila was stripped of its treasures.To do so, she sets off on a thrilling adventure to the Land of Forbidden Magic, which is full of spirits who were banished there by Olia's ancestor, Ludmila. Swirling magic, cascading invention and a welter of invented folklore traditions propel this headlong fairy tale story from its opening moments. Ich weiß nicht, ob es daran lang, dass ich mich bei diesem Band mit dem englisch etwas schwerer getan habe, oder an der Handlung, die hier doch sehr "kindgerecht" war. I glance from Mama to Babusya as I pour three cupfuls of milk and stir a little honey into mine and Mama’s. It isn’t hanging on the wall any more and my chest tightens as I think of it torn and crumpled in amongst the mess on the floor.

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He does everything slowly and carefully, always carries a fat black notebook under his arm, and at every opportunity draws pictures in it with a fine black pen. It has loops sewn onto the top two corners, and we use the poles for opening the castle’s windows to lift the blanket high, then dangle it from two hooks in the wall.All Olia wants to be is the best big sister ever, and shower her sister with love and show her the world and the castle they live in.