Finding Baba Yaga

I've always loved the story of Baba Yaga, and I never seem to tire of stories told in verse, a storytelling-through-poetry method that works beautifully for whimsical, dark fairytales like this one. Something unique to Finding Baba Yaga, however, is the modern spin Yolen puts on it; while you know that it takes place in modern times, it's easy to forget when Natasha is in Baba Yaga's house of magic and mysteries.

This is a taleboth old and new,borrowed, narrowed,broadened, deepened.

Baba Yaga prefers them bright, asking questions,challenging her, turning their backs.She likes the ones who stick out their tongues,laugh at death threats, use foul language, never beg.

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All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to TorDotCom for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!