Theme: Hunting and hunters

Marushka’s Egg

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Nine-year-old Marushka is sucked into a magic egg, where she is forced to be housekeeper to the witch Baba Yaga.

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Brave Jack And The Unicorn

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Sent out into the world to find his missing older brothers, Jack does good deeds for helpless animals along the way, and they repay him when he poses as a suitor to try and save a princess from an evil magician.

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Prince Silencio

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When his son is born amid the clamor of a loud celebration, the King, who cannot tolerate noise, roars, ‘Silence’–which becomes the prince’s name.

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