While reading The Tale of The Firebird for #ChildrensClassicRead2025 , I came across the Russian fairytale that one of my favorite books, The Snowchild is based upon!
I love a literary surprise!
What Serendipity! 🇷🇺🤍💙❤️ 🇷🇺
pickOnce I starting reading to catch up, I could not put this down. I had to finish! This is a new genre for me & I loved it. A whole different take on Cinderella. Ash has agency; Grief spurns her on; Ash grows into her own. True to the traditional Cinderella fairy tale, Ash is mistreated by her cruel stepmother. But she experiences kindnesses along the way: Beatrice, Gwen, & Kaisa-this helps her break away.
This is interesting!
The illustrator is a master of Russian decorative art, one of the last most impressive artists in the great Russian tradition of book illustration. He left Russia after the Revolution & settled in Paris. He translated 4 Russian fairytales into French, writing them out in beautiful calligraphy & illustrating them on heavy vellum pages
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#ChildrensClassicRead2025
After cleaning the house I‘m going to settle down a bit and read June‘s #ChildrensClassicRead2025
I have 2 physical books & one ebook.
I also am going to read about Baba Yaga that‘s included in the ebook.
