DREAMS - Hardcover

Spier, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038519336X ISBN 13: 9780385193368

Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1986

Synopsis

Two children watch cloud formations and interpret them for themselves.

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Kindergarten-Grade 2 Spier has a penchant for taking the ordinary and pursuing it in such a way as to make the event intimately meaningful. Here he explores the art of cloud watching. From the nebulous cloud forms on one spread spring forth the diaphonous shapes of animals, ships, trains, and knights in shining armour on the next. A boy, a girl, and two dogs frolic in the lush greenness of the countryside as this magnificent procession emanates and vaporizes in the boundless blue. Wordless until the closing (". . .and the next time you gaze at the sky: dream dreams!"), the book offers the same message through the visuals. In addition to its strong imaginative quality as seen in the use of flying birds for animal eyes, sunlight for dragon fire, and jet streams for the lances of the knights, humor is also an integral part, as when the children imagine two monsters chasing them home on the final endpapers. Children and adults alike will revel in the warmth of an unstructured day filled with an artist's wonder of nature and imagination, yet be nudged ever so slightly by the author to his own sense of discovery and dreaming that allows no room for boredom or disinterest. Cathy Woodward, Lima City Schools, Ohio
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Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038519336X
• ISBN 13: 9780385193368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 28