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by Sergiej Nowikow (Translator), Sergiej Nowikow (Author)
The book includes more than 100 illustrations.
It comprises 50 folk tales, translated in 2016 and published in English for the first time in this collection.
This carefully selected compilation brings together some of the finest Polish folk tales ever written.
Children's fairy tales help young readers develop imagination, creativity, and a sense of justice, while gently shaping important personal values.
This book comprises the following 50 fairy tales:
Maria: What Is Destined to Come Shall Come
Anuszka and Her Golden Braid
About Two Girls: One Kind and One Wicked
The Girl and the Prince in the Cowhide
Sermon
Three Lamps
The Simple Man Who Comforted His Master
How the Peasant Got Rich
Extraordinary Wife
The Owl and the Hawk
Why the Hare Doesn't Eat Meat
Dog's Winter Thoughts and Summer Thoughts
Is There Justice in This World?
Mazek's Debt
Very Worst Punishment
It Does Not Stab, nor Does It Shoot, yet It Knocks One Senseless
About a Rich Gentleman
How a Smith Worked His Way to Heaven
About a Prince Who Did Not Want to Die
A Present for the Kings' Godson
About the King's Son
How a Simple Man's Son Became the King and Married a Sea Girl
How the Dog Got the Wolf to Wear Boots
Gustek's Misfortune
Two Brothers
Miracle at the Mill
Lark and the Wolf
Spellbound Pike
Ostruda Stone
Lazy Girl
The Dwarf and the Bear
Nobleman and Michal
Punished for Guile
Misfortune
Ram Brother and Duck Sister
Shepherd
Golden Fish
Golden Lynx
Healing Water
Prince and His Helpers
About a Cockerel
Fisherman's Son and the Water Man's Daughter
Boy and His Dog and Cat, and the Lion Cub
One Who Went to Ask the Sun
Magic Gun, Fiddle, and Boots
Glass Hill
Fear
Titelitury
Tailor's Wife and the Countess
How the Slug Defeated the Fox
The book is richly illustrated, with artwork that closely follows and enhances each story.
Author Biography
The tales have been lovingly collected and translated into English by the publisher Sergiej Nowikow, who views himself as being Polish by spirit and Polish in his deeds, Polish to the core.
In order to collect the fairy tales in this book for you, we had been interviewing Polish natives from 1992 to 2012.
These tales are radiant with the Polish people's vitality, filial love for one's parents, and the energy of kindness.
They were collectively created by the Polish nation. Many authors of various origins have adopted these folk motives since then. However, this compilation presents the original folk versions of the tales.
