Najmoisha Mama

This Ukrainian language children’s book is distributed
by Otter-Barry Books, Bounce Marketing and Grantham
Book Services, to provide literature for Ukrainian
refugees in the UK.

The book is being distributed by publishers across
Europe, co-ordinated by German publisher Moritz Verlag.
Otter-Barry Books publisher Janetta Otter-Barry
commented “We want to help Ukrainian children arriving
in the UK from the war in Ukraine feel comforted and a little
more at home. We hope that by providing a book in their
own language we will help them to do so.”

In this warm-hearted ode to mothers everywhere,
one little girl writes down everything she knows about
her mother. She tells how she hopes to make her mum a
queen at midnight on New Year’s Eve, but they both fall
asleep before the magic can work. Her mother is good,
gentle, fair and patient. She is kind to stray cats and
gentle with dolls. She has a beautiful smile and she knows
something very special – that there’s a baby in her
tummy, a baby brother who will join the family very soon.
Infact this mother is the BEST MUMMY IN THE WORLD!

Halyna Kyrpa is a Ukrainian writer who was included
in the IBBY Honor List 2018, holder of the Order of
the North Star for her outstanding contribution to
strengthening Ukrainian-Swedish ties and fruitful
work in the field of translation of Swedish children’s
literature. Her books have been translated into
dozens of languages, and she translates from
Belarusian, Danish, German, Norwegian
and Swedish.

Hrasya Oliyko studied Fine Arts and Book Graphics
at the Institute of Publishing and Printing at NTUU
KPI in Kyiv, Ukraine. She illustrates books for
children and works with The Old Lion Publishing
House, Ababahalamaha Publishing House, Crocus
publishing, Flying Eye Books, Ranok and other
publishing houses. She is the author of The Story,
told by Zhuka (The Old Lion Publishing House) a
picture book about two stray dogs. Grasya loves
animals and has two dogs and two cats, who used to
be homeless.