Can You Hear Me? Excerpt

Ekaterina Trukhan

Can You Hear Me?

bird

moose pine cone

caterpillar

pine tree

mushroom

rock

lake

ladybug

sun

hedgehog

blueberry

pebbles

fox

Can You Hear Me? Text and illustration copyright © 2020 by Ekaterina Trukhan The original edition of Can You Hear Me? was published by Egreš in 2020.

Original Slovak edition, Egreš, o. z., Bratislava, 2020 Original title: Počuješ ma?

All rights reserved.

Translated from Slovak by Ekaterina Trukhan and Nadine Robert Book design and typography by Michal Tornyai Additional design for this edition by Jolin Masson This edition published in 2021 by Milky Way Picture Books, an imprint of Comme des géants inc. Varennes, Quebec, Canada.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Can you hear me? / Ekaterina Trukhan.

Other titles: Počuješ ma? English Names: Trukhan, Ekaterina, author, illustrator.

Description: Translation of: Počuješ ma?

Identifiers: Canadiana 20210042478 | ISBN 9781990252037 (hardcover) Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T66 Ca 2021 | DDC j891.8/73—dc23 ISBN: 978-1-990252-03-7 Printed and bound in China

Milky Way Picture Books 38 Sainte-Anne Street Varennes, QC J3X 1R5 Canada www.milkywaypicturebooks.com

Can You Hear Me? Ekaterina Trukhan

Hello, little one!

Can you hear me?

Listen!

I’m calling out to you.

I can be as loud as a flock of birds singing joyfully…

or as quiet as a rustle of leaves on the ground.

Look! I can be huge and fluffy like clouds in the sky…

or be really tiny like a snail hiding under a leaf.

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butterfly grass

squirrel

ant

rabbit leaf

branch

snail

tree

fish

flower

bee

bear

acorn

A poetic riddle that solicits all of your senses!

Can you guess who is calling?

ISBN 978-1-990252-03-7 U.S. $15.99 Can. $20.99 51599