A. Starobinets "Beast Fables"

• Author: Anna Starobinets
• Series: Beast Detective
• Publisher: Abrikobuz
• Illustrator: Maria Muravski
• Number of pages: 176
• Hardcover
• Dimensions: 170x240 mm
• ISBN 978-5-6044141-5-6

This book brings together legends and fairy tales, poems and songs, ancient lore and modern adventure stories that animals from all over the world tell and sing to their young, mostly at bedtime. The collection also includes fairy tales from the village of Okhotka, which will introduce wild readers to the beliefs and myths, customs and ways of life of little-known country animals.

Anna Starobinets' "Beast Fairy Tales" is a spin-off of the popular "Beast Detective" series, intended for all its fans and their younger sisters and brothers.

The Senior Badger of the Far Forest Police tells little Badgerkin about the Sky Bears.

Dog Polkan entertains puppy Mukhtar with stories about the Great Dog and his sworn enemy Pussy-Don.

A Persian cat recalls how the black sorcerer cat Noir lured her into the Forest of Shadows.

The badger brothers-spies Ug and Chak learn that the site of the Near Forest was once a field of honey carrots grown by the flying hare Krylukha.

Badger Mother Melessandra convinces her daughter that her father was the first badger on the Moon.

The brave prairie dog Shaking Tail listens to the story of the cackling witch Koye, the foremother of coyotes; Rafik the baby giraffe tells the legend of the Mango Gods who created the first desert animals; a baby penguin shares the hunting tales of a penguin-shark; and a little fox tells a blood-curdling fox tale about the Frozen Demon.
For younger and middle school children.

♦ E. Uspensky Literary Award "The Big Fairy Tale", "Fairy Tale" category (2020)