F rl t Sofa too soft, not sleep well. In some Finland-Swedish children's books we meet foreigners who have come to Finland and who have learned Swedish to some extent. In the dialogue the authors can choose between different ways of expressing the fact that these foreigners talk with an accent. Thus the author Marita Lindquist marks her Russian background. On the morphological level there are divergences mainly in the inflection of nouns and verbs.
Most divergences are on the syntactical level.
Also divergences from standard word order in Swedish as well as the ways in which most of Madame's questions are constructed can be held as Russian influence. In Marielle och Madame , as in many other children's books, foreign words are explained, but here it is not done by an omniscient narrator. The explanations are often part of the dialogue between the two main characters, Marielle and Madame. The illustrations in the book are also used for explanations .