Title: Lost in translation??
Review: This is supposed to be a very traditional Russian folk story with quite unique personages like Baba-Yaga in it. Unfortunately, some of the aspects are lost in translation. For starters, there's no Vasilisa the BRAVE in Russian fairy tales, never was. Vasilisa the Wise or Vasilisa the Beautiful weave their way from one story to another, but Vasilisa the Brave does not exist in Russian folklore. How hard is it to translate correctly the story that already written? It's not like one has to create it anew.I was looking for a book which would intriduce my kid to the traditional Russian fairy tales I grew up hearing, but the book that has such liberty in translation won't be one of them.
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