โ Scribed by Jane Yolen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Finding Baba Yaga is a mythic yet timely novel-in-verse by the beloved and prolific New York Times bestselling author and poet Jane Yolen, โthe Hans Christian Andersen of Americaโ (Newsweek).
A young woman discovers the power to speak up and take control of her fateโa theme that has never been more timely than it is nowโฆ
You think you know this story.
A harsh, controlling father. A quiescent mother. A house that feels like anything but a home. Natasha gathers the strength to leave, and comes upon a little house in the wood: A house that walks about on chicken feet and is inhabited by a fairy tale witch. In finding Baba Yaga, Natasha finds her voice, her power, herself....
"Jane Yolen is a phenomenon: a poet and a mythmaker, who understands how old stories can tell us new things. We are lucky to have her."โNeil Gaiman
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"Jane Yolen is a phenomenon: a poet and a mythmaker, who understands how old stories can tell us new things."โNeil Gaiman
โThis novel-in-verse is a journey, an escape, and an encounter with an ambiguous evil. Tart and touching and sometimes deeply sad, with surprising stings of wit.โโJohn Crowley
โThis is a Worm Ouroboros of a story, the old made new, the new made old, metaphors rubbing shoulders with painful truths. A book-length poem, Finding Baba Yaga is no gimmick but rather the only way the story could be told to deliver the impact that it does.โโCharles de Lint
โSeductive in the best way possible, Finding Baba Yaga draws you in from first word to last, its secrets doled out like sweet treats.... If youโve never met Baba Yaga before, itโs time. If you think you have, be assured: not like this.โ โNikki Grimes
Jane Yolen is a bestselling, beloved, and immensely prolific author of more than 365 books for children, teens, and adults, including the picture book How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and the novels The Devilโs Arithmetic and Briar Rose. She is also a poet, a teacher of writing and literature, and a reviewer of childrenโs literature. She has been called โthe Hans Christian Andersen of Americaโ (by Newsweek) and โthe Aesop of the 20th centuryโ (by the New York Times).
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