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Johnson, Paul Brett

A Perfect Pork Stew

32 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-531-30070-6 | Library ISBN 0-531-33070-2
(4) K-3 In this original folktale Ivan the Fool outwits Baba Yaga, the witch from Russian folklore. The old witch thinks she's tricked Ivan into making her pork stew, but Ivan cooks up a batch of dirt soup and wheels a pig home in his barrow. Comical, though awkwardly rendered watercolor and pencil illustrations bring the Russian folk characters to life. Although not for the purist, this tale is amusing.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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