Tales from Russia

As part of our Art History study of Marc Chagall this month, we will be reading Russian folktales at lunchtime. First step: go through my picture and chapter book collection and look for Russia-related books I already own!

Firebird
retold by Saviour Pirotta

Russian Tales and Legends
retold by Charles Downing

Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology
retold by Elizabeth Warner

Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale
by Boris Artzybasheff

Ten Small Tales
retold by Celia Barker Lottridge

"The Fox and the Walking Stick"
"The One-Turnip Garden"

Fairy Tales from Near and Far
retold by Felix Salten

"Sevenyears"
"By Command of the Fish"

Favorite Folktales from Around the World
edited by Jane Yolen

"The Wise Little Girl"
"Clever Answers"
"The Merchant's Daughter and the Slanderer"
"Dividing the Goose"
"Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka"
"Vasilisa the Beautiful"
"The Bad Wife"
"Death of a Miser"

The Book of Little Folk:
Faery Stories and Poems from Around the World
edited by Lauren Mills

"Vasilisa the Beautiful"

In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
retold by Virginia Hamilton

"First Man Becomes the Devil"

The Magic Butterfly and Other Fairy Tales of Central Europe
translated by George Obligado

"The Talisman"

Tell Me Another Story
edited by Louise deForest

"The Snow Maiden"

The Snow Child: A Russian Folktale
retold by Freya Littledale

How a Shirt Grew in the Field
adapted from the Russian by Marguerita Rudoph

Mushroom in the Rain
adapted from the Russian by Mirra Ginsburg

Varya and Her Greenfinch: Little Stories
by Leo Tolstoy

Branislav the Dragon: A New Tale of Old Russia
by Mary Lou Masey

Luba and the Wren
by Patricia Polacco

The Keeping Quilt
by Patricia Polacco

Here Comes the Cat!
by Frank Asch & Vladimir Vagin

The Frog Princess
retold by J. Patrick Lewis

I also made a set of the needle felted figures from this story for puppetry!
I had such great fun making the witch's hut on its little chicken feet.

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/ftr/chap01.htm

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