Tashi and the Baba Yaga
Tashi
and the Baba Yaga
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Written by
Anna Fienberg &
Barbara Fienberg
Illustrated by
Kim Gamble
Published by
Allen & Unwin
1998
Thank you for choosing Baba Yaga! This book is about an evil old lady who likes to eat children and has skeletons around a house. How creepy! Tashi almost gets eaten by Baba Yaga. Read the book to find out the rest.
1. What did Tashi forget to put on the goose?
- shoes
- hair
- hat
| Tashi forgot to put hair on the goose. Stephanie, Katie, Felicia, Laura, St Lukes Rappers |
| Our class disagreed about the answer to this question. Some felt
that if you followed the text it had to be the hat, however, if you
looked at the illustrations the hat was on the goose but the hair
was missing. Students felt that the author's intention was that the
'hair' was missing. Merriwa1 |
| Hair Aldiana and Alyssa, Stradbroke Rappers |
| I think that Tashi forgets to put a hat on the goose. What does
everyone else think? Bridie, Gib Gate Rappers |
| I think Baba Yaga ate the children and used their bones for
decorations in her garden. Bridie, Gib Gate Rappers |
| Baba Yaga ate small children and kept their heads - skulls and
displayed them because she was so pleased with the number of
children she had eaten...They make an excellent attraction!!! Tashi
became very curious when he saw the house and the skulls and wanted
to investigate further. Merriwa 1 Rappers |
| For decoration Katie, Stephanie, Laura, Felicia, St Lukes Rappers |
3. Look at the pictures of Baba Yaga's house on pages 33 and 34. How is it different from your house? Why does it have wings and legs?
| They have wings so they can travel from village to village. They
have legs so it can stand up. It also has wings so it can
fly. Daisy, Susannah, Amy, Shannon and Tatiana, St Hilda's Rappers |
| The house is different because our houses don't have
crooked chimneys. We don't have skeletons outside. We have gates at
the back of our houses. Alyssa doesn't have a handle on the door. It has wings and legs so that it can fly and land. From Alyssa and Aldiana, Stradbroke Rappers |
| This question is very interesting because it is true
that houses are built according to customs and culture. Baba Yaga's
house is fictitious as it would need to be to suit her lifestyle.
Her house needs to have wings and feet so that she can escape at any
time from mobs of angry villagers. Her house enables her to travel
the world in search of different 'flavoured' children, she's not too
fussy. Merriwa 1 Rappers |
4. Baba Yaga is a traditional tale from Russia. Click here to read it online. How has Anna Fienberg woven the elements of the traditional story into her tale about Tashi?
Send us your answer by clicking here or if the link doesn't work, send an email to tashirap@palmdps.act.edu.au We will publish your replies here.
Monica Z James B Lauren G Kai S
Tashi's village has no hens. There are no eggs. Can Tashi save them?
1.The villagers were upset because there were no eggs for their breakfast omelettes. What other things could they have had for breakfast instead?
| Tea, bacon, wheat-bix, toast Stephanie, Katie, Felicia, Laura, St Lukes Rappers |
| This question about what to have for breakfast is an interesting
one. The class felt that you could have anything else for breakfast
and that maybe they would have to be more creative with cooking. The
children believed that the villagers ate omellettes every day and
that could only become boring. So, the villagers had a wide
selection of foods to choose from assuming they had all the right
ingredients. Amidst all argument came the following suggestions:
cereals, bacon, rice, porridge, fruit, milk and so on. On the other
hand, some felt that the villagers would only eat eggs for breakfast
and therefore ate nothing when their eggs disappeared. From the confused... Merriwa 1 |
| When there were no eggs for breakfast they could have had toast
and cereal. Daisy, Shannon, Tatiana, Amy and Sussanah, St Hildas Rappers |
2. Why did the Wicked Baron steal all the hens?
| Because he is going to give them to the pirates. Alyssa and Aldiana, Stradbroke Rappers |
| 1. The Baron was going to sell half the hens to the River Pirate
2. He kept half the hens so that he could control the price of eggs
and make them really, really expensive to make himself rich. A nasty
case of supply and demand! Merriwa 1 Rappers |
| For money Katie, Stephanie, Laura, Felicia, St Lukes Rappers |
3. Why did Tashi tell the River Pirate that the Wicked Baron was not going to sell him the eggs?
| Tashi was trying to make the river pirate leave and then the
wicked Baron could not sell the eggs. Shannon, Amy, Tatiana, Daisy and Sussananh, St Hildas Rappers |
| Tashi gave the River Pirate a small purse of gold so that he would
go away and not come back. It also saved himself from a life with
the Pirate. It also meant that the Baron was forced to give back the
hens, and from his own pocket pay for the circus to come to town.
Everyone's a winner except the Baron. Til next time Merriwa 1 Rappers |
4. You are the River Pirate and you have just discovered that Tashi has tricked you by giving you a bag of copper, not gold. How do you feel? What will you do to get revenge?
| Now we know that Tashi has tricked us by giving us a bag of
copper, we would feel very cross. We would go back and say that this
is copper and not gold. Give us the gold now! Alyssa and Aldiana, Stradbroke Rappers |
Send us your answer by clicking here or if the link doesn't work, send an email to tashirap@palmdps.act.edu.au We will publish your replies here.
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