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Alina Diaconu

Heartfelt Stories

Dar din suflet și hârtie

About the gifts you make with your own hands.

The loveliest gifts aren't bought. They're made. With a sheet of paper, a pair of scissors, some crayons, and time. More time than you think you have. And when you receive them — you receive the time of the one who made them too.

This book is about how a child learns to give. How they gather a leaf in autumn, glue it onto a card, carry it to grandmother. How they make a paper bird for their father. How they draw the sun for their mother, specially, just for her.

And about how small gifts, made by hand, stay in the home far longer than expensive ones. Because they carry within them a small, attentive being who wanted to say 'I love you' — and found, for that, a sheet of paper and a pair of scissors.

A gift made with your own hands is a way of saying: I thought of you.

What you'll find in this story

  • Creativity as a language of love
  • The gift made with one's own hands
  • Time as the most precious offering

Hărmălaia din Hambar

All the animals in the barn talk at once — and no one can hear anyone.

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