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Olga Alexandrova and her fairy tales/Ольга Александрова и ее сказки

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    Hello! Finally this is time for us to get know each other better.
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    My name is Olga Alexandrova, I am writing fairy tales for little children...
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    Are you interested why have I been starting to write?
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    It's quit simple and goes back to my childhood.
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    I graduated the school with advanced study of foreign language
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    and of course I was involved in some kind of theatre and art groups
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    I still remember how I was reading poems of russian classics in the literature lessons
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    and my teacher cried in the corner of room.
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    I have turned this reading wonderfully and sentimental so much.
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    Then my language university...
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    I have diploma of philologist and can teach english or german languages
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    I still remember my diploma work, 62 pages of german,
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    stylistic features of Tales of Hoffmann
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    and I think this is the point, this is the moment
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    when the seed was placed and gave me the young growth in the future.
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    I am assured that what we put in our kids in childhood
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    We will see in their adult personality in the future.
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    Following my group in www.vk.com
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    I have made a quiz:
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    Why should we read books to the children?
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    And all answers were the same
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    There is nothing can exchange the book.
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    If adults dont read book by themself we can just sorry them
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    But if adults deprive the reading for kids
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    This is a crime really
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    Because to deprive the most wonderful thing in our life (reading) is the crime.
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    We rarely give vent to emotions and not always do what we would like to do really
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    We always want to stay realistic.
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    But if once we read a fairy tales with our children
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    We give us opportunity to immerse ourself in the childhood, to feel ourself kid again.
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    if you ask me why do I love fairy tales and do I love them,
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    Yes, I do! Albert Einstein has such quote:
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    If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
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    If you want your children to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
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    An Idea about fairy tales come into mind just like that.
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    If you remember in the Animation "Kung fu Panda" Master has told:
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    "Accidents are not accidental".
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    So this is my way too.
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    I have born a child,
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    and from his beginning we teach him to love books.
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    It was a tradition to read before his sleeping
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    and I started to invent my own wonderfull stories.
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    So this is the way my tales come true.
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    Then I noticed that my child sleeps with a pleasure when I read him my own tales especially.
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    He has been growing up, the range of his interests increased too.
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    I noticed that he gives names to his toys according names of my tales characters.
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    And I got increadible desire to share this wonderful fairy tale world with other little children.
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    Then I registered account in the literature website with my nickname Skazochnitsa
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    and downloaded some of my tales there.
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    I have got many positive responses
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    People say my tales are very kind, light, alive and what's the most important,
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    these tales are didactic and wise.
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    I think at this moment I have got the idea to be published.
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    But first of all I need to create the book.
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    I knew roles of my heroes, my characters,
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    I knew what they are.
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    Who is grasshopper Kuzya- young, active, ready to help everyone.
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    Butterfly Lana- cute, kind creature, come to us from heaven really.
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    Tipsters,spiders- I know all of them, all of them have faces and personality in my imagination.
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    But I have no talant to draw them.
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    Then I used services of freelancers and made a casting among young painters who works with child's drawing.
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    And between many of them I discovered some works which impressed me.
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    A Painter from Saint Petersburg.
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    She is specialist of children literature, her name is Elena Molodozhan.
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    We cooperated and published our first book.
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    Second step was to find publish house but as I am beginner
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    it was quit difficult.
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    Yes, I had responses that my tales are good enough but nobody gave an offer.
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    I couldn't give up, because I did too much to became my dream true.
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    I was going to look for.
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    And once I have got an offer from publishing house which is working with authors like me-beginners.
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    I collected necessary amount of money to process this work in publishing house.
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    Now just a few details left to finish my first book.
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    I want everyone understand that I dont want to limit myself just with one book
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    As I have 16 tales now it will be 4 books,
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    every book will contain 4 tales.
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    And I repeat, it's not just writing tales and placing them in books and then we can forget, no.
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    We decided with the painter to include in books additional elements.
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    Inside every book children can find the coloring book.
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    It was made to use children motility.
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    It's very importand and usefull for children of this age group.
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    For children between 2-6 years old.
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    As I said it will be the colouring book or drawings with stickers or pictures with cutting.
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    So it will be something what makes children to use their capacity of knowledges they get from my books.
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    It helps to devlop children speach, memory, developing their way of thinking.
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    Also we have plans to publish the complilation of the all books
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    and it will contain also new training materials.
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    But for now it's just a project, I plan to do it very different from previous editions.
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    Further..I am going to translate all my books into english and german languages
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    to explode the range of our readers.
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    I have many other ideas...
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    It can be real toys and souvenirs...
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    Also I am in process now to edit audio book.
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    I made use of recording studio 44PRO
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    and we recorded a few tales with musical background.
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    The book name is Adventures of insects on a flower meadow
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    so it didn't take much time to line up with the correct music
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    Music is just real sounds of pure nature what makes my tales more mysterious and attractive for children.
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    So I think That'a all for now.
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    As you can understand except any ideas and talant it's very needy for investments.
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    And that's why I am here, in boomstarter.ru
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    I should finish now with some slogan or something.. but
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    I dont have any of them
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    Just again I remember quote from Cartoon animation
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    You need just to believe very much
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    And I just believe very much
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    I believe that I will find not only partners who will be interested about that project,
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    I will find real friends and we will be together all this long way
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    I believe there are adults who want to believe to fairy tales
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    Let's make the fairy tale together.
Title:
Olga Alexandrova and her fairy tales/Ольга Александрова и ее сказки
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09:02

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