Book Review

Title : Clever Katya

Retold by : Julia Donaldson

Illustrator : Jane Kochnewitz

Publisher : Ginn Publications

This book is about a story of Katya who is a clever girl. The Czar of Russia went out of his couch when he saw a farmer eating some bread. Since he was hungry, he asked the farmer for some bread. When the Czar tasted the bread, he thinks it was the most scrumptious bread he ever tasted. He asked the farmer to know the person who baked the bread. The farmer told him that it was his daughter, Katya who baked the bread. The Czar gave three unsolvable problems to Katya. She cleverly evaded all the questions and backfired them at the Czar. The Czar was amazed of her intelligence. He decided to marry her and brought her to the castle. She made him promise that she will take home something she loves the most in the castle if he was angry with her before she was married. They lived happily in the castle. After a year, the Czar quarrelled with Katya and told her to leave the castle. She locked him in a chest when he was sleeping and brought it home. He was surprised when he thought she had kidnapped him. Katya told the Czar the promise he made. He was very happy.