Russian Folk Tales

About this book

Written by award-winning childrens author James Riordan this book is a beguiling collection of stories set among the wide rivers and snow-covered forests and steppes of Russia--a land still shrouded in mystery in the eyes of the Western reader. The incomparable beauty of untamed nature and the Slavic gift for storytelling make for a captivating combination. Meet boyars and cossacks kings and queens merchants and minstrels robbers and angels witches and peasants. Ships fly through the air princesses turn into frogs a snowmaiden longs for a human heart the mighty Firebird steals the golden apples. Folk tales heroic sagas legends and myths from villages and towns all across Russia--they are all here in this fascinating anthology. Evocative full-color illustrations accompany each story.