The Sun Princess and her Deliverer

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980.

Item #8512

Paperback
38 pages
Illustrations by A. Makunaite

It is a Lithuanian folk tale and has color illustrations. Long, long ago, beyond the nine mountains and the nine forests, there lived a King and Queen. A son was born to them, and they loved him to distraction, When he grew up, the Prince had plenty of puffs and cream to eat, and he wore clothing spun of silver and gold. At his bidding, as if out of thin air, servants in braided coats and grooms in bright caftans appeared, and snow-white wolf-hounds followed him devotedly about and never took their eyes off him. And as for his father and mother, they would have caught the sun itself and brought it to him in a sieve if only they could. But the young Prince was always gloomy. He would chase away his servants and his dogs, stroll sadly about in the palace garden and complain of his lot. "I have no sister and no brother," he would say, "no one to play with, no one to talk to. Tell me. Mother why am I all alone?"... and so it begins.

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