Sleepy Stories

By Mario Levrero

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939810841
• ISBN13: 9781939810847
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Elsewhere Editions
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3