The Triksy Translator

Aliens land in the animal forest and speak a different language. One person appears who claims he can translate for them, but after every translation the aliens seem to like HIM more and more, and everyone else less and less ...

This is a fairy tale about the time when aliens landed in the fairy tale forest. They spoke a different language, which made it hard to understand them. Fortunately, there was one animal who claimed to be a "translator". They could translate between the languages and make us understand what the aliens wanted and why they were destroying our things. Until someone figures out that their so-called translation ... might just be a devilish trick with phonemes.

The story is split into 5 short chapters. Each chapter is written to be as self-contained as possible, so you can read one short chapter to your Apprentice(s) at a time. But it's really one continuous story referencing previous chapters, not five completely separate stories.

These stories are definitely meant to be read out loud. They are about phonemes, after all, which are the sounds that make up words. The final step before Apprentices are ready for the alphabet. This "Translator" applies a trick every time to make it sound like he's speaking a new language, but in reality, he's just swapping one phoneme for another ...

A fun way to discover and explore the concept! This book is part of the fun and educational stories of The Wayward Melody. And yes, Triksy is spelled wrong on purpose to make a point about how different letter combinations can still produce the same phoneme or spoken sound ;)