The Bed Book (Paperback) - Sylvia Plath

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Sylvia Plath, this is the perfect bedtime read, written for her own children, exquisitely illustrated by Cindy Wume in picture book form for the first time.

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Sylvia Plath, this is the perfect bedtime read, written for her own children, exquisitely illustrated by Cindy Wume in picture book form for the first time.

A Tank Bed's got cranks
And wheels and cogs
And levers to pull
If you're stuck in bogs.

Or a Jet-Propelled Bed
For visiting Mars
With mosquito nets
For the shooting stars.


Beds come in all shapes and sizes, and need not be boring beds at all . . . There are submarine beds, for nosing through water like a sardine, beds for fishing, and jet-propelled beds that take you all the way to the stars.

The perfect bedtime read, playful and comforting, the poem demonstrates Plath's eye for imagery and arresting language and is exquisitely illustrated in full colour throughout.

About the Author

Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. Her works for children include The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, and Mrs Cherry's Kitchen. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. She was married to the poet Ted Hughes and had a daughter, Frieda, and a son, Nicholas, for whom her children's poetry was written. She died in London in 1963.

Cindy Wume is an illustrator and a picture book maker who attended the Cambridge School of Art. She works in gouache, ink, dip-pen and colored pencils. She lives in Taipei, Taiwan with her little cat - Bao.