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Australian children's picture book by Mem Fox and Vladimir Radunsky From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Where the Giant Sleeps is a 2007 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky. A bedtime book, it was published by Harcourt, Inc., and it is about a giant and the creatures that inhabit it sleeping and preparing for sleep as seen through a telescope by a child who, as it turns out, is dreaming.
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| Author | Mem Fox |
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| Illustrator | Vladimir Radunsky |
| Cover artist | V. Radunsky |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Published | 2007 (Puffin Books) |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 24 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9780670071739 |
| OCLC | 174101529 |
A brief review of Where the Giant Sleeps in The New York Times wrote: "A dreamlike landscape - houses, trees, hills and pastures - makes the form of a sleeping giant. Small readers will enjoy putting the details together, and Radunsky's gouache illustrations seem to glow with starlight".[1] Kirkus Reviews wrote: "Casting dim moonlight over drowsy forms made with cloudy edges and soft colors, the artist expertly captures the poem’s tone and makes the slide down into dreamland well-nigh inevitable".[2]
Where the Giant Sleeps has also been reviewed by the following publications: Publishers Weekly,[3] Booklist,[4] School Library Journal,[5] Horn Book Guides,[6] Library Media Connection,[7] Magpies,[8] and The Center for Children’s Literature.[9]
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