Sleepy Stories

A buoyant account of the nightly tug-of-war between a sleepy father and his son, and the richly imaginative sleepy stories they create

Each story told in Sleepy Stories drifts deeper into a beguiling dream world, telling of an elastic gentleman who stretches his body across town to effortlessly slip into bed, or of another sleepy young man who curls inside an upside-down umbrella to take a snooze. In Diego Bianki's magical universe, the waking world is made small (a French press and a red top hat shrink before our eyes), while the dream world Levrero and his son Nicol s build together (a land of sly frogs, giant apes, and smiling squids) waltzes across the page. On the last of Bianki's whimsical illustrations, Nicol s holds the book over his father's nodding head and says, Another. This is a book to giggle with and curl up with, to take on every sleepy adventure.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Elsewhere Editions
Published: 07/06/2021
ISBN: 9781939810847
Pages: 32

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2021