Books like The black geese by Alison Lurie

In a world where a terrible witch plans to eat a little girl, the child escapes by using a mysterious mirror and comb given by the witch’s cat and dog.

Retold Russian fairy tale where brave Vasilisa uses her doll to outwit the witch Baba Yaga, and the chain of events leads the overlooked girl to marry the Tsar.

Baba Yaga, the cunning witch, attempts to capture a young man with a trick, but he outwits her plan and escapes without being eaten.

In a Russian folk tale, a clever young girl is sent by a cruel stepmother to the fearsome witch Baba Yaga, but she uses kindness and wit to escape.

Prince Ivan embarks on a legendary quest in a Russian fairy‑tale retelling, meeting the magical Firebird and battling the evil Kotschei to rescue a princess.

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A collection of twenty-four traditional tales drawn from the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland.

The Tsar's son outwits a powerful demon with the aid of a beautiful princess.

A collection of traditional Russian fairy tales told by an old man to his grandchildren.

While studying medicine at Hahnemann University in Pennsylvania, Joseph Herman Romig met Ella Mae Ervin, a nursing school graduate, who shared his desires to help those less fortunate. The couple married and were sent to Alaska where they joined Herman's sister, Edith, and her husband John Kilbuck at the Moravian mission in Bethel. To keep in touch with her family, Ella recorded her daily life in letters home. These transcribed epistolary journals tell the experiences of a young woman who left the East Coast to accompany her new husband to the then little-known coast of southwest Alaska at the close of the 19th century. This is the narrative of a devoted wife and mother constantly threatened by hardship, disease, and weather who nevertheless grew to love her adopted country as she loved the family to whom she wrote. Ella's attitude about life was buoyant, even though she occasionally complained about the drudgery, the loneliness, and the hard work.

A young Ukrainian girl repeatedly returns to a rescued wren to convey her parents’ escalating demands, weaving a folk tale version of "The Fisherman and His Wife."

A collection of thirty Russian folk and fairy tales, featuring stories such as "Death and the Soldier," "Fair Vasilissa and Baba Yaga," "The Firebird," and "The Magic Berries."