Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. English Translation. Translated from the Russian by Peter Tempest. Illustrations by Vassili Shulzhenko. Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak, 1887 1964, was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. He translated Shakespeare's sonnets, some other Shakespeare's works, English poetry (including poems for children) and poetry from other languages. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be 'the founder of Russia's (Soviet) children's literature'.              ENGLISH BOOK; Pages 20