SUMMARY

The first three articles discusses the world of folktale and literary fairy tale. Gražina Skabeikytė writes about daughter’s, stepdaughter’s, sister’s and mother’s roles in the Lithuanian folktales. Asta Plechavičiūtė analyses Stepmother and Stepdaughter by Liudas Dovydėnas and compares it with the similar folktale plots. Jolanta Lugowska carefully studied, how Oscar Milosz interprets folktales and how individualizes it’s style in his famous Lithuanian Tales and Legends.

The modern poet Valdemaras Kukulas answers Elona Varnauskienė’s questions and tells about his childhood, reading, books.(The caption “Books of my childhood”). Kęstutis Urba writes about R.L.Stevenson’s life and works, especially his Treasure Island, and some schoolchildren comment the book by Stevenson in “Letters” section. In the Review caption books by Valdemaras Kukulas, Roald Dahl, George Sand, Tove Jansson and Frances Burnett are reviewed. Donata Vaičiūnaitė tells about the Newbery Award, and Roma Kišūnaitė presents Children authors’ jubilees in 2001.

Žurnalas „Rubinaitis“, 2000 Nr. 3 (15)