The House with Chicken Legs
By Author / Illustrator
Sophie Anderson, Melissa Castrillon, Elisa Paganelli
Genre
Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Age range(s)
9+
Publisher
Usborne Publishing
ISBN
9781474940665
Format
Paperback / softback
Published
03-05-2018
Synopsis
Marinka dreams of a normal life, 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...
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019. Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019. Shortlisted for Children's Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2019.
Author Sophie Anderson has now written a follow-up to The House with Chicken Legs, called The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away, which will be published by Usborne in March 2026. Read our indepth Q&A with Sophie Anderson.
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