Boys Whispering

A prolific writer of varied and timely themes, Voula Mastori penned Dorilenia, a tender tale of sensitivity, imagination and humour, bringing to light the significant role of reading extra-curricular books in children’s linguistic development. In this story, infants speak their own language and understand all the tongues of the world – both human and animal. But when they begin speaking human talk, they soon forget the other languages and even the fact they once knew them! The heroine of the story, little Dorilenia, who didn’t want this to happen to her, refused to start speaking until the day she visited her school library.