Baba Yaga dresses up as a babushka, or grandmother. The others accept her, and she becomes a babushka to a townsfamily. One day, the townspeople tell stories about the Baba Yaga, and scare her foster grandson. She leaves, until one day she saves her grandson from wolves. The townspeople accept her. A good website for this book is: http://www.patriciapolacco.com/books/...

Type: Picture Book: Intermediate, Genre: Realistic Fiction, Illustrations: Painted
This is a story about a grandmother who does not have any grandchildren and her goal in life is to be a grandmother and care for a little baby. She enters a town and soons finds out that there is a mother who is need of someone to care for her child. The story just keeps getting better. But why would I spoil that for you? This makes you realize that those close to you are priceless,and also that is isn't nice to talk about others.

Baba Yaga lives in the forest near a village. Everyday she dreams of having a grandchild and family of her own to love. She is different and the village people tell tales of the horrible Baba Yaga and how she eats people. She decideds to dress up as a babushka. Then she meets a woman and her grandmotherless son. Baba Yaga begins to care for Victor and grows to truly love him like a grandchild. One day, the villagers are sharing how horrible the Baba Yaga in the forest is; she must leave before Victor finds out who she really is.

I really enjoyed reading "Babushka Baba Yaga". I think that this would would be a wonderful for book for third, fourth, and fifth graders. The moral to the story is do not judge people. In the book it describes a horrible woman of the forest, but the woman is not bad at all and all she wants is to be loved and to have a grandchild. So the woman tries to fit in so she can be a nanny to a family. I think that this book has a very important lesson to teach. Children really do need to understand that you can not judge someone for the clothes they were or how they look. ( )

Received book from aunt on her return from St. Petersburg, Russia in June 2009.