Allen & Unwin The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories book English Paperback 96 pages

Sylvia Plath's timeless children's stories in a delightful edition set in a clear font for younger readers, with wickedly captivating illustrations from David Roberts.

The stories in this collection include the eponymous The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit, in which little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There's magic afoot in Mrs Cherry's Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.