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soffftie · 2 months

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woke up to snow today so i decided to go on a cafe to read for a bit<3

currently reading: the house with chicken legs by sophie anderson

#books #cafe #books and coffee #cozy #winter vibes #reading #bookworm #middle grade #fantasy #the house with chicken legs #mine

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therefugeofbooks · 2 years

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new books ✨️

#booklr #books #book photography #destransição baby #torrey peters #detransition baby #frankenstein #junji ito #manga #the house with chicken legs #a fabulosa casa com pernas #the pull of the stars #o capricho das estrelas #emma donoghue #books and plants #the refuge of books

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do-you-know-this-play · 4 months

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#the house with chicken legs #sophie anderson #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls #turns out all you need to do to get me to want to see a show #is show me a cool set piece and i’m sold #but i mean LOOK AT THAT

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jup1ter-moon · 8 months

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babe wake up new house with chicken legs photos just dropped

#once again imploring you to go see this show #i love it so bad #the house with chicken legs #musical theatre #musical theater #musicals #theatre #theater

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zadiezink · 7 months

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Went to see The House with Chicken Legs at the theatre and bawled my eyeballs out in the loos after act one

#the house with chicken legs

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godzilla-reads · 2 years

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I was out distributing books again and I found this in a Little Free Library and thought, “I must have it!”

📖 The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

September 5, 2022

#godzilla reads #the house with chicken legs #Sophie Anderson #little free library finds #little free libraries #free libraries #reading #reads #booklr #bookworm #book cover #middle readers #book blog #booklover

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mythosblogging · 2 years

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“My house has chicken legs. Two or three times a year without warning it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we’ve been living.”

Published in 2018, Sophie Anderson’s 'The House with Chicken Legs' reached swift popularity. It was shortlisted for five different awards in 2019, including CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Blue Peter Book Awards. The children’s book tells the enchanting story of a young girl named Marinka, who lives with her grandmother and Jack, a jackdaw that she raised from a chick. The three of them live in the woods in their house which, as the title suggests, has chicken legs. If this is starting to sound familiar, it should – the book is an enchanting retelling of a figure from Slavic folklore, the dreaded Baba Yaga.

In Sophie Anderson’s retelling, you meet many Baba Yaga throughout the novel, the first of course, being Marinka’s grandmother. The Yaga’s job is to guide the spirits of the dead to the afterlife, through a door in each of their chicken-legged houses. Marinka herself is a Yaga in training, though as a child her only duties are to prepare food for the spirit’s last meal and fix the bone fence that marks the perimeter of the property.

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tales-from-the-boneyard · 1 year

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~~~ The Baba Yaga ~~~

The Baba Yaga sits on her porch, a smoking pipe clenched between her teeth and her gnarled fingers twisted together in her lap. A patterned shawl rests around her shoulders, protecting her from the chill of the night as she gazes up at the stars.

Beneath her, the house strides across the forest, stepping over wide rivers with ease. It’s strong scaled legs carry them swiftly through the night, eager to reach their destination.

The house slows to a halt at the bottom of a hill, settling carefully down in a small clearing. The Baba Yaga sets aside her pipe and heaves herself from her chair. She collects her fence from a box beside her chair and walks around her house, setting the worn bones evenly apart and lighting the black candles embedded in the skulls.

Then she returns to her chair and settles down to wait, staring out at the dark.

Her breath plumes in the cold air, clearing away just in time for her to see the first spirit arriving. They tread carefully across the dew-strewn ground, feet barely disturbing the blades of grass. Each pauses before they step through her gate, resting their hands carefully on the only skull without a candle. The tarnished bone fence posts glow in the slight light provided by the ghosts flickering forms.

She greets each spirit by name, offers them a bowl of stew and asks for their stories. She laughs with them, congratulates their victories in life and sympathises with their sorrows.

Then she invites them inside and they step one by one through the doorway. Each one fading into dust, with nothing but a smile on their face and memories in their head.

And the Baba Yaga sits back down in her rocking chair, to wait yet again…

#artists on tumblr #cryptid #myths and legends #baba yaga #the house with chicken legs #tales from the boneyard #bit shitty ngl but i’m happy with it

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bookcoversonly · 2 years

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Title: The House with Chicken Legs | Author: Sophie Anderson | Publisher: Scholastic (2018)

#books #The House with Chicken Legs #Sophie Anderson

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waffliesinyoface · 4 months

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was thinking more about youkai-ification while in the shower, and you know what's the best part of it, IMO?

not realizing it's happening.

it starts off with small subtle personality changes, which could be noticeable to any of your friends, but to you? it's so slow that for you it's just your new normal. you've always been like this, right?

you don't notice that anything is different until one day when you look in the mirror and realize that your eyes haven't always been red.

what else might have changed? can you even tell?

#touhou #would marisa ever turn herself into a Magician Youkai - no. that would undermine both her own personal aesthetic (important for magic)#as well as her own hard work (she's proud of her development as a magician despite being an ''ordinary human'')#but. well. the human villagers love to talk.#marisa lives in the forest of magic. she creates strange concoctions with mushrooms. she consorts with fairies.#she hangs out at that youkai-infested shrine.#no *human* could do all that and come out unscathed... could they...?#Congratulations; marisa! You may not be a Magician™ but you're well on your way to becoming The Witch of the Forest™.#if you get the urge to put your house up on chicken legs or eat small children that's no fault of your own.

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modmad · 9 months

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I know you are The Bird Person but believe me I was not prepared for how good you are at chicken noises

I had some practice with Bukbuk! and thank you very much! :>

#Bukbuk is a DnD character who is a chicken-legged house #yeah #toonkind DnD #prepares you for unexpected things such as chicken noises #thanks to everyone who has sent me kind messages!!! I am a bit overwhelmed!

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therefugeofbooks · 2 years

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a pretty book and a pretty view 🌷

#booklr #books #book photography #the house with chicken legs #sophie anderson #books and flowers #books and nature #the refuge of books

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unbidden-yidden · 6 months

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Hey jumblr friends: has anyone here read Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott? I'm trying to find someone else to chat with about this book but it's very definitely about pogroms so I can't in good conscience recommend anyone else read it until I know exactly how to warn them if desired.

(If you're about to ask me why I'm reading a book about pogroms at this exact moment in Jewish history, it's because I think this book will either break me or fix me, but I'm hoping it's both.)

#well #it's about a specific pogrom that happened to the characters' family's shtetl #like it's also about a lot of other things #like baba yaga and her house on chicken's legs #and gays and puppets and magic #but it is also very definitely about pogroms and trauma and the past not going anywhere #so

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jup1ter-moon · 4 months

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