Presents eight Russian folktales, including "Ivan the Fool and the Firebird," "How the Cat Outwitted the Fox," and "The Nanny Goat and her Family" as retold and illustrated with watercolors by a late nineteenth-century artist and designer.

Ivan the fool and the firebird -- Fair-Head and Beauty-Red -- How the cat outwitted the fox -- The magpie -- Why the bear has no tail -- Sashka and Nikolashka -- The cunning peasant -- The nanny goat and her family.