A fabulously formulated adventure in the life of Penguin, whose inimitable poetic style promises to entertain and instruct many a young reader. To say nothing of adults!
1. Penguin goes on a month-long pleasure cruise to the moon. The fact that it is a pleasure cruise doesn´t mean that Penguin will be cruising the moon for lovely lunar ladies, although this possibility cannot be excluded. This pleasure cruise is simply a trip to the moon in a space rocket.
2. The captain of the rocket speaks to the passengers. He says: "Esteemed passengers, in a moment we will enter the field of weightlessness. Please fasten your seat belts, stop eating, and secure your personal belongings so that they don´t fly all around the rocket. Thank you."
3. Penguin is hungry and opens a can of sardines. "I like sardines best when they fly directly into my beak, he-he-he," Penguin thinks.
4. Penguin and the sardines enter the state of weightlessness. The sardines fly out of the can, but they don´t head directly into Penguin´s beak.
5. Penguin drops the can and unfastens his seat belt so that he can chase the sardines. The can hovers and an oil cloud flows out of it.
6. The sardines, the can, the oil cloud, and Penguin fly into the first class passenger cabin.
7. The rocket leaves the state of weightlessness. The sardines, the can, the oil cloud, and Penguin are once again subject to gravitational force.
8. The sardines land on the passengers in the first class cabin. The oil cloud settles on their clothes. The can lands quite sharply on a man´s head. Penguin lands quite sharply on a woman´s lap.
9. The passengers in first class are furious. The most furious are the man and the woman.
10. Penguin tries to save himself by escaping to the cockpit.
Dear children,
Now write and tell us what the captain of the rocket will probably say to Penguin. Did Penguin behave properly?
Yours,
Dr. Jenda Silhavy
Translation © Sam Triebs
Note:
Dear children,
If you really insist on writing to us, well, write to:
Dr. Jenda Silhavy
Nam. Zachariase z Hradce 51
588 56 Telc
or by email to: novinar@volny.cz
Considering the fact that I receive an enormous number of letters from all over the world every day, please, dear children, be maximally brief and speak to the point. Maybe it would really be better if not all of you answered the questions but if, for example, only each second or third or tenth child answered.
Thank you very much for your understanding,
Yours,
Dr. Jenda Silhavy
