About the book: 1993 / This is a fun fairy-tale book about the adventures of Murzilka and his friends, who with extraordinary resourcefulness and ingenuity expose all the machinations of the evil sorceress Yabeda-Koryabeda. The first part of this book, “Yabeda-Koryabeda and her tricks,” is a reissue, the second, “Yabeda-Koryabeda and her tricks,” is being published for the first time.