The Secret of the Iron Tree

In a new tale by the famous fairy-tale writer Sofia Prokofyeva, everything begins very simply: Polina’s grandmother went to the city, forgetting her glasses in the village. The granddaughter decides to go to the village together with her friend Alka. They find the glasses without trouble—but then real miracles begin! The moment Polya took a candle, it lit by itself. At the same instant, a chest disappeared, then the attic, and after that the entire village vanished. Only an enormous oak remained—only it became many times bigger and seemed to be covered in an iron bark. A little door opened in the oak, and a kind aunt wearing a lace cap invited the children to go inside. But to Polya and Alka’s horror, it turned out this was not a kind aunt at all, but a cunning fox. And on every iron branch of this oak their faithful death awaits. How did the full adventure of secrets and mysteries end? Only whoever reads to the very end of this exciting story—invented by a recognized master of children’s literature—will find out!