SOLVED. Children's book based on folktale about the clever daughter. [s]

[Sarah]

Looking for a children's book that dates back to the 80's or early 90's. It was a picture book based on the Jewish/German folktale about the clever daughter who is given the following riddle: she must appear before the king neither naked nor clothed, neither walking nor riding, neither on the road nor off it. I remember a beautiful illustration of her wearing a fishnet, and that's it! It was definitely a picture book, NOT in an anthology of folk stories, which is all I am finding on Google.

[Ayshe]

The Tsar's Riddles or the Wise Little Girl maybe?

[Rainbowheart]

There's also Clever Katya, but it was pubbed in '98.

[Sarah]

No, the book I am thinking of was not overtly Russian, the king was definitely not a tsar.

[Ayshe]

You'd remember if it was pop-up book? I found "Clever Cathy": https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Bo...

[Nóinín]

The story is "The Peasant's Wise Daughter" ("Die kluge Bauerntochter"), #94 in Grimm's Fairy Tales. There are several re-tellings, in English mostly called "(The/a) Clever Lass" e.g. by Joseph Jacobs, Josef Štefan Kubín and Božena Němcová, and a beautiful pop-up picture book done by Vojtěch Kubašta: https://www.booklooker.de/B%C3%BCcher... , however, that won't probably not be the one - aw, I've only just noticed, that's the same one as Ayshe's suggestion. :-D

[Sarah]

it definitely was not a pop-up book. I do know the origin of the story, but I am specifically looking for this (I think) Jewish retelling that I had as a child.

[Sarah]

I FOUND IT! I went down the Jewish route because most of my childhood books were from Jewish bookfairs and such, and looked up some Jewish authors I know who wrote a lot of picture books, and found it! It was The Three Riddles by Nina Jaffe.

[Rainbowheart]

Glad you found it!

The Three Riddles for the link.

[SamSpayedPI]

It's available on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/threeridd...