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Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical AntiquityKrüger, Maria, Apolejka i jejosiołek [Apolejka and Her Donkey].Okładka i ilustracje [Coverdesign and illustrations by] ZdzisławWitwicki. Warszawa: NaszaKsięgarnia, 1991 [ed. pr. 1963].28 pp.A Czech translation: Apolenka a jejíoslíček, transl. by Oldřich Syrovátka,Praha: Státní Nakladatelství DětskéKnihy, 1967.A Dutch translation: Prinses Apoleikaen haar ezeltje, transl. by Inge Groeneveld,Amersfoort: A. Roelofs vanGoor, 1967.A Finnish translation: Apoleika ja hänen aasinsa, transl. by Veli Kolari, Helsinki:Otava, 1966.A German translation: Die Prinzessin und ihr Eselchen, transl. by HellmuthBurkhardt, Niederwiesa: Karl Nitzsche, 1965.Genre: Fairytale.Summary: A princess named Apolejka lives alone in a high tower on a hill outsidethe town. One day from the windows of her tower she notices a chimney–sweep drinking water from the well. The very next instant the boy turns into adonkey; after eating an apple from a magic tree, he returns to his human form.The chimney–sweep goes away but soon comes a prince singing a song forApolejka. But, by the time the girl runs downstairs to welcome the prince, hehas already drunk the water from the bewitched well and has become a donkey.Apolejka wants to break the spell by making him eat the magic apple but theonly one left is rolling down the hill and falls into a heap of apples on a townmarket stall. There is no other way to find the magic apple than to taste them155