01047cam a2200229 4500 9769703 TxAuBib 20041001120000.0 ||||||s1968||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 68054105 /AC/r82 TxAuBib Ransome, Arthur, 1884-1967. The fool of the world and the flying ship : a Russian tale / retold by Arthur Ransome. Pictures by Uri Shulevitz. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. 48] p : col. illus ; 24 x 27 cm. "Originally published in 1916 as part of [the author's] Old Peter's Russian tales.". "An Ariel book.". When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way. Folklore Soviet Union. Caldecott Medal books. Shulevitz, Uri, 1935-, ill.