The Little Moon, and other goodnight poems

„Mały księżyc i inne wiersze na noc”
Joanna Papuzińska, illustrated by Jakub Guterman


Joanna Papuzińska invited Jakub Guterman, her friend from Israel, to illustrate her collection of lullabies. During the war, as a child, Jakub hid in the villages near Łowicz. Now he has painted crooked fences with mallows blooming by them, roadside willows, hives, old clocks striking the hours, decorated cradles and folk cut-outs on the walls.
A bilingual Polish-Hebrew version of ‘The Little Moon’ (“Mały Księżyc”) is being prepared.

Joanna Papuzińska – full professor at the University of Warsaw. A poetess, prose writer, historian, researcher of literature and literary critic, she is the author of numerous theoretical works on library science and children’s literature and an indefatigable promoter of reading. She has published over a dozen academic studies and several dozen books for small children. Many have been translated into foreign languages, including Spanish, Slovak and Bulgarian. She has won numerous prizes and awards, among them the Golden Cross of Merit, the “Zasłużony Kulturze – Gloria Artis” Gold Medal and the Order of the Smile.

Published by Wydawnictwo LITERATURA / Łódź 2005