The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Blurb

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship is a book illustrated by Uri Shulevitz that retells a Russian fairy tale of the same name. The text is taken from Arthur Ransome's version of the story in the 1916 book Old Peter's Russian Tales; Ransome had collected the folktale when he was a journalist in Russia. The book was released in 1968 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and won a Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1969.