The house with chicken legs / Sophie Anderson.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Publisher: Great Britain : Usborne, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 336 pages 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781474940665
- 1474940668
- 813.6 23
- He,ug
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| Barnmedia | Porsöns bibliotek | Biblioteket | Engelska (barn) | Ex2 | Available | 80064061063 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
My househas chicken legs. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up inthe middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.
A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl's adventure to find her destiny.
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
Marinka dreams of a normal life, where her house stays in one place long enough for her to make friends. But her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning.
For Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas...
"Enticing, a little bit dangerous, and thrumming with possibilities." Kiran Millwood Hargrave
"A magical tale... a captivating and original retelling of a traditional story straight out of folklore. Beautiful escapism." Sunday Express
For Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas...
Primary, intermediate National Library of New Zealand.