Where the Giant Sleeps Reviews

Has anyone ever done the definitive, scholarly study on why Russian illustrators kick butt? Seriously. There's tons of them around, dribbling paint across many of my favorite picture books.

In this one, a sleeping child's imagination takes over, and fairies, witches and other magical beings slumber throughout a dream landscape that takes the shape of a dozing giant. The trees are his hair, for example, and a tilled field forms striped trousers.

That's it, really, plus some simple, rhythmic text that also rhymes, to set...