It's nice to find old favourites.

[20thcenturyvole]

Many years ago, my favourite book was this red-bound hardback volume of Russian fairy tales. Not only were the stories totally awesome - Baba Yaga, flesh-eating horses, magic apples and so on - but the illustrations were these incredibly lush, full-page watercolours in this kind of art nouveau style. Anyway, the cover was disintegrating even when I

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[aurora_84]

(Random fact: 'Vasilisa' was on the shortlist of names my parents considered giving me. Heh.)

[20thcenturyvole]

Huh, as a baby's name that would really work! It shortens quite nicely indeed. :D

[lizzie_and_ari]

Alex, you pirate, that was MY FAVOURITE BOOK! In fact, it was my book and I used to spend hours reading it in trees. That is how it became so battered. It was very heavy and I had to turn into a very skilled one handed climber to get up there, but once I was settled on a branch I could spend hours reading it. I loved it. Thank you so much for tracking it down. I was as gutted by its loss as you were. Yay!