A Tale in Verse for Primary School Age. Translation from Ukrainian. From the author: With a small clapper, I loved to say out loud, like a magic spell: "Barvi-i-nok! Barwi-i-nok! Barvi-i-nok!" A little chant, throwing his head back, with a gentle emphasis on the letter "and." This wondrous sound was carried away to the far edges. To the Goryn River, to which there are three steps, to the forest, to the flowering meadow. Or just into the garden, into the raspberry wilderness, where it flowed along the ground, keeping cool, a strange blue flower on evergreen leaves. My periwinkle...