When their one single candle ‘mysteriously’ burns out, Vasilissa’s evil stepsisters send her into the forest to retreive a new light from the home of Baba Yaga, the cruel and mighty witch. Nobody who ventures to the witches hut alone makes it out alive, “But Vasilissa had a friend, and that one better than most...”.

The second in a series of digitally illustrated book jacket designs and endpapers based on the children’s short story collection Rocking Horse Land and Other Classic Tales of Dolls and Toys, compiled by Naomi Lewis and published by Walker Books in 2000.

Other designs in the series:

The Town In The Library by E. Nesbit

Rocking Horse Land by Laurence Housman