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Наткнулась недавно на занятную книжку: James Finn Garner, Politically Correct Bedtime Stories и радостно использую ее и в своих занятиях. Лексика прекрасная, переводить весело, дискутировать о прочитанном вообще супер-увлекательно.

Вот, цитирую кусочек:

"Once there were three little pigs who lived together in mutual respect and in harmony with their environment. Using materials that were indigenous to the area, they each built a beautiful house. оne pig built a house of straw, оne a house of sticks, and оne a house of dung, clay, and creeper vines shaped into bricks and baked in a small kiln. When they were finished, the pigs were satisfied with their work and settled back to live in peace and self-determination.

But their idyll was soon shattered. оne day, along came a big, bad wolf with expansionist ideas. He saw the pigs and grew very hungry in both a physical and an ideological sense. <...>

The three little pigs rejoiced that justice had triumphed and did a little dance around the corpse of the wolf. Their next step was to liberate their homeland. They gathered together a band of other pigs who had been forced off their lands. This new brigade of _porcinistas_ attacked the resort complex with machine guns and rocket launchers and slaughtered the cruel wolf oppressors, sending a clear signal to the rest of the hemisphere not to meddle in their internal affairs. Then the pigs set up a model socialist democracy with free education, universal health care, and affordable housing for everyone."