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A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl's adventure to find her destiny.
The Girl Who Speaks Bear – read by Sophie Anderson
Inspired by Russian folk tales of bears, princesses and dragons, The Girl Who Speaks Bear is a gorgeously lyrical adventure of courage and friendship.
The Castle of Tangled Magic read-along: an introduction from Sophie
Welcome to the Castle of Tangled Magic read-along! There are 6 sections to this Sophie Anderson read-along, which correlate with the action of the book. For each section you’ll find an extract prompt, a video message from Sophie Anderson, a discussion point and a fun activity. Let’s get started!
Teachers' Resources
Explore key themes of Sophie's books through creative tasks, discussion questions and an exploration of the wider issues. Aimed at KS2 and KS3.
Sophie Anderson was born in Swansea, and now lives in the Lake District with her family. Her writing is most often inspired by folk and fairy stories, especially the Slavic tales her Prussian grandmother told her when she was young.
Across her bestselling novels, Sophie has won the Independent Bookshop Book of the Year Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and been shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards' Children's Fiction Book of the Year, the Andersen Prize, and the Branford Boase Award.
Sophie's books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, and The House with Chicken Legs has been adapted for stage by Les Enfants Terribles.
