I wanted to try my best at #onebookaday with my daughter and we are doing better than expected!

Got to the library on Saturday and among the books we got her was one she really liked at her friend’s house and asked me for specifically: “Too Purpely!” by @jeanreidy My 3 year old is now reciting it by heart (telling me she can read the book!) after she heard it three times.  So her vocabulary in English increased by several words and I decided to do our old trick – let’s read this in Russian.

So I read it to her in Russian. This means I was trying to translate it on the fly as we were reading (come on there are barely any words in that book ( 49 English words to be exact), how hard can that be!). And … I got stuck! Had to go and check some words out.

So I decided to share it with you as it’s not quite as easy as it might seem for the parent and the end result was –  she learned a bunch of new words (hurray!). The words in the book are sometimes made up versions ( like “purpley” – such a form of the word purple does not really exist in English, but you will hear it from many kids!). In Russian I went the other way – I tried for all the words and expressions to be the correct way of saying it in Russian, she will get to play with them and mess them up on her own later:

 

Слишком фиолетовое!Автор Джин РайдиИллюстрации Дженивьев Лелуп	Too Purpley! By Jean Reidy Illustrated by Genevieve Leloup
Не эту одежду!!	Not these clothes!
Слишком фиолетовое,	Too purpley,
Слишком щекотное,	Too tickly,
Слишком сморщенное,	Too puckery,
Слишком колючее.	Too prickly.
Слишком чешется,	Too itchy,
Слишком царапается,	Too scratchy,
Слишком много стежков,	Too stitchy,
Слишком одинаковое!	Too matchy!
Слишком полосатое –	Too stripey –
Слишком много бирок,	Too taggy,
Слишком много ремешков и бретелек,	Too strappy,
Слишком мешковатое?	Too baggy?
Слишком много перьев,	Too feathery,
Слишком танцевальное,	Too dancey,
Слишком кожаное,	Too leathery,
Слишком нарядное.	Too fancy.
Слишком скользкое,	Too slippery,
Слишком много пятен (грязное),	Too spotty,
Слишком много молний,	Too zippery,
Слишком в горошек!	Too…polka-dotty!
Как удобно!	So Compfy!
То, что надо.	Just right.

Please feel free to chime in with better translation options!