On the pages of this book, a celestial whale swallows the sun, abandoned shoes try to take revenge on their former owners (but they fail!), an alder ladle teaches a hunter wisdom, and an ordinary Sakhalin shell manages to trick the most cunning animal in the world - the fox.
And in Sakhalin fairy tales there lives an amazing character - Anvil Head. This is such a nasty old woman. Not quite ordinary: her hands are tongs, her legs are spitting irons, and her stomach is a blacksmith's bellows. And instead of a head - an anvil. "She goes, her stomach - a blacksmith's bellows inflates hapussi-hanussi, her tongs-hands creak - hesse-hesse, her head-anvil rings - tenge-tenge..." But don't be afraid! The heroes of the fairy tale will find a way to deal with her.
The book " Fairytale Sakhalin " includes rare and unknown tales of the island's small peoples: the Nivkhs, the Uilta, the Nanai, the Evenks, and even the mysterious Ainu. Here, good inevitably triumphs over evil, two suns and two moons shine, and the heroes, together with the readers, learn to protect and preserve what they inherited from their ancestors.
Recommended reader age: 2+
Author: Alexandra Agafonova
Artist : Ksenia Andreevna Voronova
Year of release: 2021
Publisher: PressPass
Pages: 120
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 232x232x13 mm
ISBN: 978-5-6045981-8-4
Series: Tales of the Far East