Vasilisa the Beautiful and Baba Yaga (Illustrated) Paperback – Large Print, 16 Mar. 2012

I'm a lover of Russian art and the illustrations in these skazki are as beautiful as Vasilisa. Tales like these have a sound moral purpose, too. They are meant to warn the young off from venturing into the huge forests wherein they'll easy become disorientated and food for bears and wolves!This tale of how the beautiful Vassilisa outsmarts the scariest witch, Baba Yaga has to be the best of all the skazki?It's certainly my favourite!

when a child I read the Baba Yaga books to my brothers, that was over fifty years ago, this book brought back the wonderful memories of them listening in awe as the tale unfolded. I will download others to read. That is why I have given it five stars.

Beautiful illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Great for John Wick fans too. Not the highest quality paper or print but perfect for kids bedtime reading.

Lovely little story complete with beautiful and colourful illustrations. Very traditional, just wish there were more illustrations to accompany it.

I loved it. It was just as I remembered it from my daughter's childhoodl

I really loved this beautiful tale. Folklore is properly captured and is magically evocative. One to read again and again and hunt down a physical copy of this book

This is a lovely story though told in a rather archaic way with "thees" and "thous". I first bought the book as published by Progress Publishers (Moscow) in the 1970s - it cost only about 30p then!!! The wonderful illustrations by Ivan Bilibin are not well reproduced in the Amazon edition, garish colours and the shiny paper does not do the pictures justice. And I'm not sure that all the illustrations appear in this reprint, but without my 1970s copy to compare I can't say for certain.Overall, a bit of a disappointment though the folk tale is still enjoyable and one can still see how beautiful Bilibin's ilustrations are.

So pretty

reminds me of the books my babcia used to gift me as a small child, great addition to the meditation room.

Es muy bonito

“Vasilisa the Beautiful and Baba Yaga” is a traditional Russian fairytale retold by Alexander Afanasyev and translated into English by Post Wheeler in the 2017 edition published by Planet Books. In the story, Vasilisa is given a magic doll by her mother as she is dying. She tells Vasilisa to give the little doll some food and drink and then it will help her solve whatever problem she’s facing.Indeed, the doll saves her over and over, even when faced with the ogre Baba Yaga, who threatens to eat Vasilisa if she doesn’t do everything she’s told. Eventually, she’s brought to the tzar, who falls in love with her.The story is full of interesting characters, but Vasilisa is little beyond her beauty and her magic doll.The real reason to read this book is the amazing illustrations. The full color plates are a delight to the eye, lavish and detailed and magical, with decorated borders. Every page has a narrow decorated border as well.This is a gorgeous book with an interesting story.

This is a beautiful book. the illustrations by Ivan Bilibin are simply beautiful. My children and I are loving the book. I just wish I could have bought the hard cover copy.

I read constantly and this book is a treasure