“The distressed mother turtle disappeared with her children behind the door of the surgery. And while the doctor pumped the three little stomachs of the poor young turtles, grandma Greta sang another large section of the WAITING song. Turtles need a long time for everything, that’s just the way it is. Cleopatra the octopus was suffering from an itchy rash. Poor thing, it was all over her body. She scratched so fiercely that all her tentacles got twisted up in a ball. The doctor carefully disentangled them and prescribed her some cream for the itching. The conger eel complained: “I’ve got no energy, I feel weak. And all because ships were sailing over my bed all night...”

Published by Pluto press, 2019.
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Original (in Slovak) published by Egreš press.
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Narrated by: Nataša Mikulová Bednářová
Recorded by: Jan Sedláček, Mr Wombat
Audio post-production: Jonáš Richter
Musical accompaniment: Markéta Lisá
Illustrations: David Böhm

Andrea Gregušová (born 1973) graduated in Slovak language and musical education from the Pedagogical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. She works in Horné Orešany as a teacher of Slovak for foreigners. Andrea started writing for her own pleasure while at university. In 2007 she successfully offered her fairy tales for publication. She writes her stories down on paper so that the process of compiling them doesn’t take up too much space in her head.

Supported by the Prague City Council and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.