Zlateh the Goat, a 1967 Newbery Honor Book, was his first book for children. If you have no older children on your list, buy it for yourself." Singer's extraordinary book of folklore is illustrated by Maurice Sendak, who won a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. The New York Times called Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, "beautiful stories for children, written by a master." The New York Book Review said, "This book is a triumph. Here are seven magical folktales spun by a master storyteller, that speak of fools, devils, schlemiels, and even heroes-like Zlateh the goat. But there are lesser fools too: a silly irresponsible bridegroom four sisters who mix up their feed in bed one night a young man who imagines himself dead. The most famous fools-the oldest and the greatest-are the seven Elders. Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Maurice Sendak provided illustrations for the book.
The stories were translated from Yiddish, which was Singers language of choice for writing, by Singer and Elizabeth Shub.
The third grade needs 10 copies of this book! Isaac Bashevis Singer, 'Zlateh the Goat,' in Stories for Children, (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984), 48. Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories is a 1966 book of short stories written by Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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