The House With Chicken Legs

by Sophie Anderson

The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson is a fantasy book ideal for the tween age group (9-12, approx), especially kids with a taste for the macabre. It’s 300+ pages in length and opens with the narrator, Marinka, making a fence out of bones and skulls. Her granny is a guardian between this world and the next, and they move from place to isolated place. ‘I wish my family was a normal family, too,’ says Marinka.

The book, according to the author

“Baba Yaga is a character from Slavic folklore: a bony-legged, iron-toothed, long-nosed old hag who lives in a house with chicken legs deep in the forest. She is so linked to her house that in some stories they have grown together and become one being.”

Who is Baba Yaga, from Sophie Anderson's blog, October 6th, 2017