Cyrillic Code Breaker

Moscow the cow had a secret. She gave Little Thunder a card with strange letters on it.

"It's a code!" said Little Thunder. "I can't read it."

"It's written in Russian," said Moscow. "Russian uses different letters called Cyrillic. Here is a letter key to help you."

Suzy looked at the key. "Some letters look like ours. Some look quite different."

Spike read the first word slowly. "Б says b. А says a. Н says n."

"Б-А-Н-А-Н," said Little Thunder. "Banan! That sounds like banana!"

"Yes!" said Moscow. "Банан means banana."

The second word was longer. Suzy worked it out. "К says k. Е says e. Н says n. Г says g."

"Кенгуру," said Little Thunder slowly. "Ken-gu-ru... kangaroo!"

Just then, a real kangaroo hopped past the fence.

Everyone laughed.

"You cracked the code!" said Moscow. She shared a big bunch of bananas with everyone.

"Banan," said Little Thunder happily. "My new favourite word."