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this is wonderful - I really love it! beautiful illustration:-)

i agree... it's great!

This is so cute, I love it! :)

This is so fun. I love it!
---Tif

I've never seen this one! It's really great. Love the swirly background too! (Is it ever worth it after the romance?) Yes!!

Great texture and background. Nice work.

Hee-hee. Really! This is so funny and cute.

Wow! Love this, Roberta!

So delicate... but at the same time very funny! Very interesting forms and composition! Great illustration!

amazing perspective! great composition! love the background!

Lovely!!!

Very dimensional! As if the viewer is floating right up there with her!!

very well done!

Ahhh, this is really lovely.

agree!!Very nice done:))

Wow! I wish I could sleep like her! Beautiful illustration :)

wonderful illustration, love the tiny landscape.

...hope i have one of those supernatural dreams; flying high above, it must be awesome!

great job! it really looks like him. He will always be the real Willy Wonka...while I love Johnny Depp, he just didn't cut it for me!

Wow! This is GREAT!!!

I agree. Nothing can ever top Wilder's Wonka.

Wow! Really, really gorgeous! I am so impressed.

Yep, this is the really Willie Wonka for me, too.

Great job Roberta!

Spot on! I can hear the music playing "Who can take the sunshine..."

brilliant, loved that movie.

Amazing...

WOW!! Great pose, you really captured him!

Great work! Love the movie!

This is great. Look at the texture. Excellent!

Wow Diana! I LOVE this! How fun and spring-y! Looks like this woman knows how to celebrate spring! It is so cute.

thanks Kathleen...

I had fun with this week's illustration...all I know is I can't wait for SPRING!!!!

Diana, I just love evry little detail in your illustrations. The flowers, bee, butterfly, that leperchaun and that very sexy fairy.

Sweet! Nice one, Diana.

Oooh I love the colors in this illo! Great work :)

Thanks for all the sweeeeeeeet comments...

Cheers,
Diana

Love it! Great piece, Roberta.

They are gorgeous, Michelle! :D

Yeah !!!
It's a pleasure to see your work again !
I love the smiling sushi ! ^^
really nice paintings !

These are so great Michelle! It really looks like you had lots of fun making them! =)

Wonderful! I'll hop on now!

so lovely michelle!

i hope you are having a nice weekend. if you can kindly visit my site because you've been tagged :)

Looks like a lot of fun over there with Mike!

Son muy agradables, un beso enorme :)

I like the spiral elbows. Nicely done overall!

As a social worker at a family resource center in Mendocino County, California, I have been using folk takes as a means for helping “at risk” children develop resiliency as they navigate some tough life circumstances. We have used some of the stories that Charlotte has listed in a class that we call “Story Play”. We have created an aesthetically inviting, emotionally safe setting where children in groups of about 8, come together to hear stories, dress in costumes and act out the stories. Our acting is more a sense of play rather than performance. The children have also written their own stories. One child, recently returned to his family from foster care, directed his story about a baby bird who is returned to the nest. We also use visual art and crafts as a means of internalizing the stories.

Thanks for this fascinting account, DorothyGayle. There’s a reason that these stories are timeless; they speak to such deep human concerns. It’s great that you’ve found such a creative–and healing–way to share them with children.

Kelly,

I have two titles for you:

1. VASILISSA THE BEAUTIFUL, which was adapted by Elizabeth Winthrop, illustrated by Alexander Koshkin, and published by HarperCollins in 1991.

2. BONY-LEGS, which was written by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Dirk Zimmer, and published by Scholastic in 1983. (It's a Hello Reader book.)

How about:

GRANDMA CHICKENLEGS by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Moira Kemp, Carolrhoda 2000.

THE FLYING WITCH by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Vladimir Vagin, HarperCollins 2003.

This sounds like a totally excellent paper. I LOVE tracking down various versions of folktales with a fiery passion.

Thanks so much Elaine and Eisha!!

And, yes, Eisha--much fun so far :)

Kelly, I don't know if you know the Sur La Lune website, which has a page just for Baba Yaga,

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/babayaga/index.html

not to mention a T-shirt you can wear when giving the paper!

Do we get to read the paper when it's done? Please?

Hi Becky: I have! It's such a great website and the t-shirt idea is fab. I think I'll do it ;) It's a summer conference--I don't think anyone will mind.

IF you really want to...I'll send you a copy!

Oh, this sounds great! Good luck. If I run across any more titles I'll let you know. A possible source for info about the structure of the tale itself (you probably already know this) might be Morphology of the Folk Tale by Vladimir Propp.

Great site redesign, by the way!

a.fortis: You have to love the Propp. One of my favorites for new students of literature. He breaks it down cleanly and easily.

Please let me know if you run into the most wicked witch of the East. I'm collecting titles!!

Thanks re: site :)

Have you read "The Firebird"...I vaguely remember Baba Yaga there in that collection.

BlueRectangle Books

I'll check it out, Melanie. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yes, I *really* do!

Thanks, Kelly.

And you can always layer the t-shirt under a linen shirt or something like that!

There is, and I'm sure you've already considered it, my favorite Baba Yaga story by Patricia Polacco, "Babushka Baba Yaga".

Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave /
as told by Marianna Mayer ; illustrated by K.Y. Craft.
New York :
Morrow Junior Books,
c1994.

We have that one and love it. Also Jr. Great Books vol. 4 first semester has a version told by Post Wheeler that I used to read to fourth grade every year. The question prompts are really good.

I'd love to see your paper too!

I don't know if it counts as a "picture book" but the graphic novel series Fables by Bill Willingham has Baba Yaga as a character.

I don't know if this counts either, but I remember the Baba Yaga stories in Highlights magazine.