A review by mjfmjfmjf
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale by Arthur Ransome

3.0

A Russian version of 10 Chinese Brothers. Way too wordy and long for a picture book and with only ok art, it is not clear what makes this a Caldecott Award winner. The fool walks out the door and is nice to a stranger and does exactly what he says and so gets to obviously marry the princess and then becomes clever and popular and rich. Not a bad story but not one I'd be going out of my way to share.