baba yaga (legendary character)

A young wolf named Zima visits the witch Baba Yaga to ask for help for her family. Baba Yaga agrees but requires that Zima switch bodies with her, while she carries out a secret mission. Zima, posing as Baba Yaga, is visited by an orphan village girl named Nadya who needs help for her friend Katerina, betrothed to the Tsar. In the process, Zima discovers a common enemy that endangers the wolves, the witches, and the villagers.

The villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother.

When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog.

"Most children think twice before braving a haunted wood filled with terrifying beasties to match wits with a witch, but not Masha. Her beloved grandma taught her many useful things: that stories are useful, that magic is fickle, and that nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean. The fearsome witch of folklore needs an assistant, and Masha needs an adventure"--Dust jacket.

Happy to be adopted at last, twelve-year-old orphan Mary Hayes soon learns a terrifying secret about her new mother, the mysterious Madame Z.

Happy to be adopted at last, twelve-year-old orphan Mary Hayes soon learns a terrifying secret about her new mother, the mysterious Madame Z.

Serafina is summoned from her village to the magical cottage of a great aunt she has never heard of and learns that she is meant to become the new Baba Yaga, whose magical role is answering the first question any stranger might ask her with the truth.

Happy to be adopted at last, twelve-year-old orphan Mary Hayes soon learns a terrifying secret about her new mother, the mysterious Madame Z.

A retelling of the classic Russian folktale in which Baba Yaga uses her flying pot to travel through the forest, scaring a little girl who has been sent to the forest to find her.

Elena heads into the forest to retrieve her baby brother who has been stolen by the witch Baba Yaga, and as she journeys she stops to help other creatures that give her magical items she is going to need to get herself and the baby back home safely.