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Sleepy stories

Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.

Main Author: Levrero, Mario (Author)
Other Authors: Bianki, Diego (Illustrator), López, Alicia, 1994- (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Spanish
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Elsewhere Editions, 2021.
Edition: First Elsewhere edition.
Subjects:
Sleep > Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Drowsiness > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
Summary: Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.
Item Description: Originally published in Spanish: Buenos Aires : Pequeño Editor, 2018 under the title, Cuentos cansados.
Physical Description: 28 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN: 9781939810847
1939810841
Author Notes: Mario Levrero was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940 and died in 2004. Levrero was a photographer, bookseller, comics scriptwriter, humorist, crossword author, and creator of brain games. In his later years, he directed a literary workshop. His novel Empty Words was published in English in 2019.

Diego Bianki is an illustrator, editor, and designer from Argentina. He is co-founder and artistic director of Pequeño Editor, a collective publishing project based in Buenos Aires that specializes in illustrated books. For his illustrations, he has won the 2013 Bologna New Horizons Prize for the book Diccionario para armar , the Konex Career Illustration Prize, and the 2012 Illustration Prize from the Venezuelan Banco del Libro for the book Candombe fiebre de carnaval . He has also won two White Ravens, awarded by Munich's Internationale Jugendbibliothek.

Alicia López is a translator and sculptor. She grew up in San José, Costa Rica and currently lives in California.

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