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Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey
Author:
Martin, Emily Winfield
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Class:
Easy
Age: 3-6
Language: English
Descriptors: Picture Book
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LC: PZ8.3
Grade: P-1
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ISBN-13: 9780449810804
LCCN: 2012029945
Imprint: Random House Books for Young Readers
Publisher: Random House
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Pub Date: 10/22/2013
Availability: Available
List: $18.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
H 10.3",
W 9.9",
D 0.33",
0.9031 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest Titles
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Book Award Winners and Honors
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Animals
Bedtime Stories/Poems/Music
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Bedtime & Dreams
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse
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LC Subjects:
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Animals, Fiction
Bedtime, Fiction
Dreams, Fiction
Stories in rhyme
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SEARS Subjects: |
Animals, Fiction
Bedtime, Fiction
Dreams, Fiction
Stories in rhyme
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Annotations |
Publisher Annotations | 07/18/2013 |
Ideal for bed time reading, this book will appeal to parents and children who love 'Grandfather Twilight' and 'On the Night That You Were Born.' Author, illustrator, and creator of The Black Apple Etsy shop, Emily Martin convinces children to close their eyes and discover who their dream animal might be-and what dream it might take them to. With a perfect nighttime rhyme and gorgeous illustrations, this book is irresistible. Separate ends and a matte cover with spot lamination complete the package. |
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Journal Reviews |
BookPage | 11/13/2013 |
Ages 2-5. Ever seen a bedtime book for children get them all worked up instead? Often a story can excite a child, the opposite intended effect for a nighttime routine. This isn't likely to happen with Emily Winfield Martin's Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey, the gently paced, rhyming tale of imaginary nocturnal creatures taking sleeping children on nighttime adventures. "There are animals from long ago / And twice as far away. / Their maps are made of starlight / And can't be seen by day," the story opens. These creatures are in charge of delivering children to Dreamland, and it's their quirky destinations that keep this sweet story from being altogether too cloying. A bear carries a bespectacled boy to "meet peculiar friends" at a "misfit table," which seats Humpty Dumpty, a robot and more. There's also a circus with a monkey on a unicycle and small, green, elvish creatures atop a crescent moon. As if a direct descendant of Mary Chalmers, Martin's very painterly illustrations feature a moderately romanticized view of childhood, replete with well-behaved, doe-eyed children. It's a throwback, as if she's paying homage to the picture books of the mid-1950s. She pulls it off without being derivative. There's even a refreshing and subtle sense of darkness to some of the spreads; one girl stands in an elfin hollow, and readers can only wonder what magic lurks in the dark beyond her visit with the fairies. Bunnies and bears, your typical picture book fare, are tempered by the inclusion of more unusual animals, such as narwhals and a large moth, with the fantastical, ethereal spreads conveying a kind of gravity in spots. Many pages feature children sleeping with the stuffed animal versions of the creatures who appear in their dreams (also featured on the elegant endpapers). These are simple drawings on pages the color of a blue, twilight sky, but they're followed by full-color fantasy visions, made all the more striking by this color contrast. It's dreamy, a beautiful send-off to sleep. BookPage Children’s Corner Web Exclusive Review. BOOKPAGE, c2013. |
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Booklist | 12/15/2013 |
Preschool-Kindergarten. You only have to close your eyes / And when you snuggle in . . . / You'll be carried to your dream tonight / On wing or paw or fin. As children cuddle up with their special stuffed animal in their cozy beds, dreams come to carry them off on adventures. One boy's bear takes him to bake fabulous pastries to serve to some peculiar fairy tale friends. A girl encircled by fireflies rides a red fox to a magical forest, where she plays the banjo with an elf orchestra hidden in an underground hollow. Whether taking tea with mermaids in pale green waters, flying over a prehistoric world on a winged bicycle, or painting the stars while resting on the moon, these dreams suggest delightful and fantastical experiences. Martin sketches the sleeping children in black-and-white and renders the enchanting scenes of their dreams in vivid color. A sweet and lyrical bedtime story. Gepson, Lolly. 32p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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Horn Book Guide | 05/01/2014 |
3. "And when you snuggle in... / You'll be carried to your dream tonight / On wing or paw or fin." In this bedtime treasure, sleeping children take flight with his or her dream animal to whimsical settings. Soothing rhyming text pulls the reader through the lushly rendered, celestial dreamscapes, which are as likely to appeal to nostalgic adults as to sleepy children. lcf. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2014. |
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Kirkus Reviews | 08/15/2013 |
An invitation to "close your eyes" and "snuggle in" to be transported by a menagerie of dream animals to magical adventures. When readers fall asleep at night, "animals from long ago / And twice as far away" could carry them to their dreams on "wing or paw or fin." A bear might carry them to a never-ending feast. A fox might take them to an "elfin hollow / Hidden underground." Robins may fly them above the trees or a narwhal dive them beneath the seas to a mermaid tea party. A tiger could take them to a circus or perhaps a moth will carry them to the "very moon and stars." Neatly enclosed within line borders on a serene, pale blue background, the enticing rhyming text accompanies a fluid sketch of a sleeping child in a real-world setting with a toy animal, foreshadowing the dream animal that, on the opposite page, transports the child to a fantasy destination revealed in the subsequent double-page spread. These stunning, full-color illustrations rely on polished brush strokes, midnight blue backgrounds and ethereal light to produce an almost surreal atmosphere in which children quietly ride their dream animals to fantastical venues, silently suggesting the infinite possibility of dreams. A visually elegant and textually cadenced bedtime treat. (Picture book. 3-6). 32pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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Publishers Weekly | 08/12/2013 |
Ages 2-5. A boy dreams that his teddy bear gets supersized and carries him off to a magical kitchen, where he plays chef to Humpty Dumpy, a robot, and a friendly ogre. A girl snuggles with a stuffed narwhal and soon she is "Beneath the seven seas," attending a tea party with mermaids. "Whatever dream you visit/ When night replaces day,/ Your furred, or finned, or feathered friend/ Will surely know the way," writes Martin (Oddfellow's Orphanage), who runs the popular Black Apple store on Etsy. The minimalist ink-sketched bedrooms of each dreamer give way to luxuriant fairy-tale images rendered in dense, subtly radiant colors, which are reminiscent of classic European illustration (a scene in an "elfin hollow," in which the young dreamer is crowned with a garland during a sort of jamboree, is particularly Germanic in mood). Martin's rhymes are literal and don't make much of an impression, but her pictures, which skirt sentimentality despite their cherubic aesthetic, will take firm grip of readers' imaginations as they make their own ways to dreamland. Agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. (Oct.). 32p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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