The Month-Brothers: A Slavic Tale

by Samuil Marshak

Book Overview

Reality gives way to enchantment in the mountains of Bohemia one blustery January night when a little girl is ordered to find snowdrops by her cruel stepmother. The child knows that these delicate spring flowers do not grow in the middle of the winter, but what else can she do but obey? In the frozen woods she comes upon twelve magical brothers who make the impossible happen. This charming story about a little girl who sees all the twelve months of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688015093
• ISBN13: 9780688015091
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7