A picturebook by my student Barbara Sačer, age 8, grade 2B. Translated into English.

1. Spring love

2. Spring love

3. The winter was long and cold.
The bumblebee announced the coming of
warm, sunny spring with his buzzing.

4. Many colourful flowers grew from the young
grass and that invited many bugs for a feast.

5. The bumblebee Bumbo accidentally hit the
red tulip where the bee Maya sat.

6. Bumbo asked: “What’s your name?”.
Maya the bee answered: “Maya, and you?”
“Bumbo” – he answered.
That was how they met.

7. Then Maya the bee said to the bumblebee
mean: “Next time, be careful where you fly.
Can’t you see that there are many bees,
butterflies and other bugs here.”

8. When she heard the bumblebee and the bee
talking, a ladybug Viki came from another
flower. “What is that noise? What is going on
here?”

9. Nothing, I was just flying a bit faster, so I
couldn’t stop” – Bumbo answered.

10. “Yeah, right,” said Maya the bee, “he wasn’t
looking where he was flying, and that is
dangerous.”

11. “Ok, ok – the important thing is that everything
went well.” – said ladybug Viki and flew away,
on a daisy flower full of sunshine.

12. Bumbo asked Maya the bee to forgive him.
And she did.

13. After that Bumbo the bumblebee asked her
shyfully to meet him by the lake over the
mountain. There was a beautiful meadow full
of flowers.

14. Maya accepted the invitation joyfully. That is
how their unusual love began.

15. Each day they would fly together on a lake,
mountain or a meadow.

16. They would enjoy in all the spring beauties
until the night came. At night, they would
sleep and at day they would enjoy hanging
out together. Until autumn.

17. The autumn came so Maya had to go back to
her warm beehive. Saying goodbye was sad.
They promised to each other to be together
again next spring.

18. The End