The House With Chicken Legs Resources
The Girl Who Speaks Bear Resources
The Castle of Tangled Magic Resources
The House with chicken legs resources
The House With Chicken Legs Teachers’ Notes, produced by Usborne
The House with Chicken Legs CILIP Carnegie Shadowing Resources, produced by CLPE
Design Your Own Home With Legs Activity Sheet
Glossary of Russian words used in The House with Chicken Legs
Q & A with Sophie Anderson about The House with Chicken Legs
House with Chicken Legs Colouring Sheet
Video Masterclasses and Scheme of Work by Authorfy (external link)
Teaching Ideas by Ashley Booth, published by Teach Primary
The House With Chicken Legs Reading Session by Ashley Booth
You can read the prologue of The House with Chicken Legs at the Usborne website.
Could you live in a House with Chicken Legs? BookTrust Quiz (external link)
the girl who speaks bear resources
A video of me reading the prologue of The Girl who Speaks Bear (external link)
A video of me reading one of the short folk tales in The Girl who Speaks Bear to celebrate Wales Book of the Year (external link)
Glossary of Russian words used in The Girl who Speaks Bear
Anatoly’s Map of The Snow Forest from The Girl Who Speaks Bear
The Girl Who Speaks Bear Reading Session by Ashley Booth
A piece on the folklore that inspired The Girl Who Speaks Bear, written for the FCBG (external link)
Posters to print for displays: Meet The Herd version 1 / Meet The Herd version 2
Character images to print for displays: Girl, Weasel, Owl, Elk & Wolf (click to download word documents)
the castle of tangled magic resources
An article on the National Geographic website about the centuries-old wooden buildings that inspired Castle Mila (external link)
creative writing resources
Reimagine a Fairy Tale Worksheet
Reimagining Fairy Tales 1: Change the Setting Worksheet
Reimagining Fairy Tales 2: Telling the Villain’s Story Worksheet
Reimagine a Fairy Tale Villain Worksheet
Five Russian Fairytale Characters to Inspire Creative Writing (with Writing Prompts)
recipes
Baba’s Vegetable Borsch Recipe
Marinka’s Spiced Honey Bread Recipe
Shchi for Marinka: a recipe by Chez Maximka inspired by The House with Chicken Legs (external link)
Pryaniki for Yanka (Russian spiced cookies): a recipe by Chez Maximka inspired by The Girl who Speaks Bear (external link)
fairy tale resources
Fifteen Russian Fairy Tales and What They Mean to Me
Five Fairy Tales that Smash Stereotypes: a piece I wrote for Waterstones Blog (external link)
The Importance of Fairy Tales, and Five Top Tips for Sharing Them: a piece I wrote for National Share a Story Month / Federation of Children’s Book Groups (external link)
7 enchanting children’s books based on fairy tales: a piece I wrote for BookTrust (external link)
A blog post by James Mayhew, bursting with references to wonderful Russian art, music and stories (external link)
other resources and links
I have a few pinterest boards, mostly of fairy tale artwork.
I have a few playlists on YouTube, including a selection of Baba Yaga inspired music.
The 1964 Russian film Morozco (found on YouTube) has a comical scene 44 minutes into the movie where the hero Ivan meets Baba Yaga and her house. 53 minutes in Baba Yaga gives Ivan a coat and magic sleigh, and at 1.10 Baba flies in her mortar and pestle.
Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless: a poem by Jane Yolen (external link)
