Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave (Adaptation)
Content:
Vasilisa the Beautiful by Aleksandr Afanasev
Illustrator:
K.Y. Craft 
Marianna Mayer
Publication:
1994 by Morrow Junior Books
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, Picture Books
Pages:
40
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On the edge of a dark forest lives the gentle and beautiful Vasilisa, in a house made miserable by her jealous stepmother and stepsisters. Deep within the same gloomy woods lives the witch Baba Yaga, in a house built with her victims' bones.
One night Vasilisa's stepmother orders her to find Baba Yaga's hut and bring back a candle to light their home. It is an errand from which she has little hope of returning alive, yet Vasilisa bravely ventures into the forbidding forest. For protection she bears only her favorite doll, a token of her true mother's love. The tale of how this clever orphan outwits the fearsome Baba Yaga and overcomes her cruel stepmother will captivate readers of all ages.
The talented creators of the best-seller The Twelve Dancing Princesses reveal all the mystery and beauty of this classic Russian folktale. Lavishly illustrated and thrillingly told, here is a feast for the eyes and heart.
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K.Y. Craft
1940 -Japanese
Kinuko Y. Craft's paintings regularly appear on the covers of such national publications as Time and Newsweek. She has won more than one hundred gra... See more
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Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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