In this variation on the story of “The Fisherman and His Wife,” a young Ukrainian girl must repeatedly return to the wren she has rescued to relay her parents’ increasingly greedy demands.

• ISBN: 9780399231681
• Author: Polacco, Patricia
• Published: 1999 , Philomel
• Themes: Greed, parents
• Descriptors: Europe, Folklore and Fairy Tales, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Ukraine
• No. of pages: 40