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