“The Little Water Sprite,” “The Little Baba-Yaga,” “The Little Ghost”—all are built on a joke about the traditional images from German fairy tales: behind the fairy-tale mask, each time you see a sly and completely not-scary face of a modern child. There is as much magic in Otfried Preußler’s stories as there is wisdom, philosophy. The main heroine of “The Little Baba-Yaga” is still very young—she is only 127 years old. She liked to use her magic to delight and surprise people: to help poor folks collect twigs, to protect bird nests from bullies, and to take part in fun children’s games. She didn’t want to remember that “only that witch is good who keeps doing nothing but bad.” And yet, despite everything, the kind heart of the little Baba-Yaga defeats the magical power of old, evil witches.
Contents:
Otfried Preußler — The Little Baba-Yaga (translator: Y. Korinets)
The Little Water Sprite (translator: Y. Korinets)
The Little Ghost (translators: Y. Korinets, N. Burlova)
The Robber Hotzenplotz (translator: Y. Korinets)
New Adventures of Robber Hotzenplotz (translator: Y. Korinets)
M. Stuart — The Little Broom