Asleep, Asleep

by Mirra Ginsburg, Nancy Tafuri (Illustrator)

Everything everywhere is asleep except for the wind and one wakeful child

Genres: Picture Books

1 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Mirra Ginsburg was a Jewish Russian-American translator of Russian literature, a collector of folk tales and a children's writer. Born in Bobruisk (then part of the Russian Empire, now part of modern-day Belarus) in 1909, she moved with her family to Latvia, then to Canada, before they settled in the United States. Although she won praise for her translations of adult literature, including the Master and Margarita (1967) by Mikhail Bulgakov and We (1972) by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, she is perhaps most celebrated for her contributions to children's literature. She collected and translated a vast array of folktales from the Russian tradition, as well as Siberian and Central Asian traditions. Ginsburg died in 2000.

Reviews

[Dani Kappel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book shows different animals on each page and proclaims them to be asleep. It's a good bedtime book and very repetitive. It's good for phonological awareness and vocabulary. I'd recommend it for ages 0-3.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

My children and I loved this when they were little.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this at pajama storytime tonight! Short and sweet for a young audience.

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

good repetition for new readers

[Janet · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bedtime picture for the youngest as one sees various animals asleep and lastly the Mother is rocking the young child. Double page spreads illustrate various sleeping animals up close. I loved the sleeping foxes.
Copyrighted in 1992 was written by Mirra Ginsburg was born in Russia, and also lived in Latvia, Canada, and finally settled in New York was very well known for her work with folktales and as a translator of the Russian language into English.