Zlateh the Goat

This is an entertaining collection of seven short stories, translated from the original Yiddish, written by the master storyteller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Woven through the fabric of each story are subtle lessons of courage, heroism, and good intentions gone awry. Two of the stories are classic folktales, featuring devils and the courageous heroes who fight them, and the other five stories center on the Amelia Bedelia-like foibles of the simple inhabitants of Chelm, a fictional village of fools.