Baba Yaga Writes

Irina Krayeva is a children’s writer, laureate of the International Prize named after Vladislav Krapivin (2008) and the “New Children’s Book” award (2013).

“Baba Yaga writes” is not so much a book for children as a book about childhood. The author tells truthfully and deeply about what each of us had to face in what seems like a paradise time: first joys and first sorrow, first cruelty and first love, first acquaintance with distant places and first meeting with death. Isn’t the realization that there is trouble and that there is happiness—the main trial of our lives?