modern folk tales Quotes

Many, many days and nights passed. The three trees nearly forgot their dreams. But one night golden starlight poured over the first tree as a young woman placed her newborn baby in the feed box.”

“They are tart, amusing and charming, if now and then a touch irreverent. They are modern folk tales with a twist: the devil is good-natured, a sultan falls in love with a potato, and a king sends his love-struck son by jet to Moscow.”