Description: Written by award-winning children's 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. Meet boyars and cossacks, kings and queens, merchants and ministrels, 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.

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