The Candy Mom

In a small town lives an extraordinary family—a mother, a father, and three children. The mother spends her days in a confectionery shop, making all sorts of wonderful sweets, and that’s probably why everyone around calls her “Candy Mother.” Candy Mother has a huge basket of colorful socks that she inherited from her grandmother. Every morning, the mother puts on the first two socks she grabs—blue with black, or green with orange—and at that very second she gains an extraordinary magical gift, different every time. It all depends on which socks she pulls from the basket. Today she can walk through walls of houses, and tomorrow she will learn to fly or jump above her own head. The magic lasts until she removes the colorful socks from herself.

Whether Candy Mother’s magical gift will help her catch a gang of thieves who stole valuable paintings from a museum—we’ll find out from this book.

The fairy tale was written by Valentin Postnikov, the author of books about Karandash and Samodelkin, “Marmalade Granny,” and “Chocolate Grandpa.”