Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) was born in Radzymin, Poland, and grew up in Warsaw. In 1935 he came to New York, where he worked as a journalist and translated Hebrew, German, and Polish books into Yiddish. Beginning with his novel The Family Moskat (1950) and his first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool (1957), Singer published a steady stream of books -- all of them written in Yiddish and translated into many languages -- for which he was awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature. His books for children include A Day of Pleasure, winner of the National Book Award, and three Newbery Honor Books: Zlateh the Goat, The Fearsome Inn, and When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw Maurice Sendak was awarded the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, and he remains the only American ever awarded this honor. In 1983 Sendak received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, given in recognition of his entire body of work. He also received a 1996 Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in AmericaSinger, Isaac Bashevis is the author of 'Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories' with ISBN 9780060256999 and ISBN 0060256990.