Stories

I wrote this story during a therapeutic storytelling training session for all those children who find it hard to get started on schoolwork because they are afraid it won't turn out perfect. Thank you to Madara Molnika for beautiful illustrations and for the Latvian translation, which you can read here . Once upon a time there was a Little Wooden Spoon. She lived in a big drawer in a lovely warm kitchen with all the other wooden spoons that belonged to the Smiley Cook. The Smiley Cook would bake cakes all day long, using all of her spoons for stirring, mixing and scraping batter off each other, swapping from one to the other as she moved happily around her kitchen. The Little Wooden Spoon loved being part of the team. When the Smiley Cook was in charge, and all the spoons were helping each other, it was great fun to make such delicious cakes. She enjoyed the feeling of her strong wooden handle turning and twisting this way and that as she stirred the batter. She felt safe and lo...