Dream Helmet

New, William

ISBN 10: 1553800214 ISBN 13: 9781553800217

Publisher: Ronsdale Press, 2005

Synopsis

Join the children in this delightful picture book, children who dream of skateboarding through the galaxy, of meeting a guitar-playing hippopotamus, of feeding a baby brother who eats EXPLOSIVELY! Find the knock-kneed knight! Travel to Saskatchewan "without your socks and sandals on"—and by the end of the book you’ll be walking with an elephant and dancing with an elephant seal, able to speak "Tuque Talk" and sing a "Great Lake Rag" ! One of the poems asks: "How Big are You?" ("as small as a button, as big as a clue")—and whether you’re big or little or in between, there’s something adventurous and happy for you in Dream Helmet, a superb companion piece to Vanilla Gorilla and Llamas in the Laundry.

"From dreaming to streaming, from riding to sliding, Bill New’s poems and Vivian Bevis’s illustrations in Dream Helmet capture and celebrate the rhythms of childhood itself."

—Robert Heidbreder

About this title

About the Author:

William New is one of Canada’s outstanding men of letters. He is University Killam Professor in English Literature at the University of British Columbia and is the author and editor of over thirty volumes in the field of Canadian and postcolonial literature. For many years he was editor of the journal Canadian Literature. He is on the editorial board of the New Canadian Library and the editor of the monumental Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (U of Toronto Press). He is also a poet and a writer of children’s books.

Review:

"Bill New's poems and Vivian Bevis's illustrations capture and celebrate the rhythms of childhood itself." -- Rober Heidbreder, author

About this edition

• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1553800214
• ISBN 13: 9781553800217
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Bevis Vivian