Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, mylar dust jacket has been added, sticker remnant on front. The Very Good+ Binding is red cloth over boards with black line drawing of slippers on front, black lettering on the spine. Color illustrations throughout by Sal Murdocca. The “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition. The pages Are clean and the binding is tight. The book measures 10.2″ tall x 8.3″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
A hard-working shepherd wove himself a pair of magical fast-striding slippers. Wearing these slippers, he could leap and bound after his wandering cows and sheep, and never get tired.
One day, a passing stranger the slippers. But no sooner had he put them on than off he shot, tumbling and twisting over the countryside, unable to control his feet. When the stranger was at last rescued from the astonishing slippers, they were quickly stolen again. Soon the striding slippers were being passed from foot to foot as each greedy fellow who put them on discovered his mistake.
A favorite theme-crime doesn’t pay–is given a hilarious twist in this Russian folk tale, retold by Mirra Ginsburg with warmth and sparkle. Youngsters will laugh with delight as a succession of discombobulated slipper-wearers somersaults through Sal Murdocca’s exuberant, authentically detailed illustrations.
About the Author
MIRRA GINSBURG’s superb translations have covered a broad range of Russian literature. She has translated works by such famous authors as Yevgeny Zamyatin Mikhail Bulgakov and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Her picture books, drawn from Russian and other Eastern European folk tales, include Two Greedy Bears, The Chick and the Duckling, Mushroom in the Rain and How the Sun Was Brought Back to the Sky, all illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey; Which Is the Best Place? illustrated by Roger Duvoisin; and The Proud Maiden, Tungak, and the Sun, adapted from a Russian Eskimo tale and illustrated by Igor Galanin.
For young readers, Mirra Ginsburg has edited and translated The Lazies, a collection of folk tales; and the humorous science-fiction story Alice, adapted from a book by Kirill Bulychev.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
SAL MURDOCCA has illustrated numerous books for children, among them Have You Seen Wilhelmina Krumpf by Judith Chasek (a 1974 Children’s Book Council Showcase selection), Questions and Answers by Anita Malnig, Numbers, Signs and Pictures: A First Number Book by Shari Robinson, and The Big Cheese by Eve Bunting. He is the author/illustrator of Tuttle’s Shell, Take Me to the Moon! and The Boy Who Was a Raccoon.
