Best of Polish Fairy Tales - Paperback

by Sergiej Nowikow (Translator), Sergiej Nowikow (Author)

The book includes more than 100 illustrations.
It comprises 50 folk tales, translated in 2016 and published in English for the first time in this collection.

This carefully selected compilation brings together some of the finest Polish folk tales ever written.
Children's fairy tales help young readers develop imagination, creativity, and a sense of justice, while gently shaping important personal values.

This book comprises the following 50 fairy tales:

• Maria: What Is Destined to Come Shall Come

• Anuszka and Her Golden Braid

• About Two Girls: One Kind and One Wicked

• The Girl and the Prince in the Cowhide

• Sermon

• Three Lamps

• The Simple Man Who Comforted His Master

• How the Peasant Got Rich

• Extraordinary Wife

• The Owl and the Hawk

• Why the Hare Doesn't Eat Meat

• Dog's Winter Thoughts and Summer Thoughts

• Is There Justice in This World?

• Mazek's Debt

• Very Worst Punishment

• It Does Not Stab, nor Does It Shoot, yet It Knocks One Senseless

• About a Rich Gentleman

• How a Smith Worked His Way to Heaven

• About a Prince Who Did Not Want to Die

• A Present for the Kings' Godson

• About the King's Son

• How a Simple Man's Son Became the King and Married a Sea Girl

• How the Dog Got the Wolf to Wear Boots

• Gustek's Misfortune

• Two Brothers

• Miracle at the Mill

• Lark and the Wolf

• Spellbound Pike

• Ostruda Stone

• Lazy Girl

• The Dwarf and the Bear

• Nobleman and Michal

• Punished for Guile

• Misfortune

• Ram Brother and Duck Sister

• Shepherd

• Golden Fish

• Golden Lynx

• Healing Water

• Prince and His Helpers

• About a Cockerel

• Fisherman's Son and the Water Man's Daughter

• Boy and His Dog and Cat, and the Lion Cub

• One Who Went to Ask the Sun

• Magic Gun, Fiddle, and Boots

• Glass Hill

• Fear

• Titelitury

• Tailor's Wife and the Countess

• How the Slug Defeated the Fox

The book is richly illustrated, with artwork that closely follows and enhances each story.

Author Biography

The tales have been lovingly collected and translated into English by the publisher Sergiej Nowikow, who views himself as being Polish by spirit and Polish in his deeds, Polish to the core.
In order to collect the fairy tales in this book for you, we had been interviewing Polish natives from 1992 to 2012.
These tales are radiant with the Polish people's vitality, filial love for one's parents, and the energy of kindness.
They were collectively created by the Polish nation. Many authors of various origins have adopted these folk motives since then. However, this compilation presents the original folk versions of the tales.