Flying ship

The king decided to marry a daughter for the one who would build a flying ship. So the younger peasant son went to torture the happiness. He met on the way the old man and did not refuse him either a good word or a piece of bread. And the old man helped him to build a flying ship, but he advised: to take everyone on the road to take with him. And the king did not hold back his word. It’s not like him that he will have to give his daughter for a peasant son. And the king sets on all sorts of tricks. The good soul of the protagonist, and the seven extraordinary fellow travelers he met helping to overcome all obstacles and take the princess to his wife.
Classical Russian folk tale. Of course, this fairy tale itself is included in the list of mandatory (and beloved) reading of each child in our country. But illustrations! Illustrations made Uri Shulevits. And he received for this work in 1969 the Caldecott medal. The flavor, and characters, and open spaces are conveyed.
"A delightful fairy tale ... literally reviving in the illustrations of Uri Shulevitsa." The New York Times Book Review
Russian folk tale in the processing of A.N. Afanasyeva.
For reading to adults