PDF resources (click to open in new tab):
The House With Chicken Legs Teachers’ Notes
Design Your Own Home With Legs
Reimagine a Fairy Tale Worksheet
Reimagining Fairy Tales 1: Change the Setting
Reimagining Fairy Tales 2: Telling the Villain’s Story
Reimagine a Fairy Tale Villain Worksheet
Five Russian Fairytale Characters to Inspire Creative Writing (with Writing Prompts)
Baba’s Vegetable Borsch (Recipe)
Marinka’s Spiced Honey Bread (Recipe)
Glossary of Russian and other words used in The House with Chicken Legs
I’m working on adding more content here soon – if you have any suggestions or requests I’d love to hear them!
External links:
You can read the prologue of The House with Chicken Legs at the Usborne website.
Why I Love Fairy Tales and My Top Tips for Writing Your Own: a piece I wrote for Just Imagine Story Centre.
Reimagining Fairy Tale Villains: a writing starter I devised for Just Imagine Story Centre.
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
Five Fairy Tales that Smash Stereotypes: a piece I wrote for Waterstones Blog
7 enchanting children’s books based on fairy tales: a piece I wrote for Booktrust
A blog post by James Mayhew, inspired by The House with Chicken Legs, bursting with references to wonderful Russian art, music and stories.
Shchi for Marinka: a recipe by Chez Maximka inspired by The House with Chicken Legs
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.
Domovoi and Kikimora: A wordless 5 minute animation made by University students, inspired by Slavic house spirits.
