Product Description
The House with Chicken Legs
Author: Sophie Anderson • Illustrator: Elisa Paganelli
Format: Paperback
Recommended for ages 9+
The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019
Junior Design Awards 2018
Blue Peter Book Awards 2018
The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge 2017
Doncaster Book Award 2018
Northern Ireland Book Award 2019
Leeds Book Award 2019
The Branford Boase Award 2019
Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019
Stockport Children's Book Award 2018
Essex SLS Book Awards 2019
Sheffield Children's Book Award 2019
The British Book Awards 2019
Big Book Awards 2019
The UKLA Book Awards 2019
BASH 2020
Awesome Book Awards 2020
Salford Children's Book Award 2020
A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl's adventure to find her destiny.
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
Marinka dreams of a normal life, where her house stays in one place long enough for her to make friends. But her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning.
For Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas...
"Enticing, a little bit dangerous, and thrumming with possibilities." — Kiran Millwood Hargrave
"A magical tale... a captivating and original retelling of a traditional story straight out of folklore. Beautiful escapism." — Sunday Express
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