Wild guides. Animals in myths, fairy tales and legends

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Jola Richter-MagnuszewskaJoanna Wajs

Illustrations: Jola Richter-Magnuszewska

Age: 6-14
Edition type: hardcover
Release year: 2021
number of pages: 48
Dimensions: 240 x 320 mm
ISBN: 978-83-10-13695-4

A miserable swan princess, a fox bride shedding her coat, a seal in love with a human, a baby brother turned into a deer, a shapeshifting bear-warrior, a snake tsar giving his crown to a daredevil… Plus witches riding whales, goddesses astride crows, and a wary, shy octopus who was there at the Very Beginning…
The imagination of ancient peoples was largely populated by animals – close as a mother and father and, at the same time, as mysterious as fire, ocean and lightning. They taught people compassion, courage and justice, and also respect for every living being. Under the impermeable cloak of myth and fairy tale, they bridged the heavens and the earth and passed on the truth about the shared fate of all beings, about the changing of the seasons, as well as about joy and pain, life and death.