Frightfully Fascinating: Baba Yaga & Vasilisa the Brave
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Author: Marianna Mayer (on JOMB)
Illustrator: K. Y. Craft (on JOMB)
Published: 1994 Harper Collins (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0688085008
Dark, detailed and delightfully distasteful, this splendid version of the gruesome Russian Cinderella folktale has thrilled and enthralled our girls for years.
More Hallowe’en and October reading on JOMB:
- Rattlebone Rock
- Oh No, Not Ghosts
- Cinderella Skeleton
- The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe
- One Witch
- Cat Magic
- Halloween Hoots and Howls
- Snowsong Whistling
- Pumpkin Soup
Have a Happy Hallowe’en!!
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