Dormouse Dreams
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
As Dormouse dreams -- and snores -- his way from winter to spring, he imagines going on fantastical adventures with his best dormouse friend. Whimsical illustrations feature other animals entertaining themselves with dart games, cross-country skiing, flying airplanes, and more while Dormouse hibernates. Readers can also follow the friend's journey to Dormouse's house, where she wakes him up for some real life pleasures, including daydreaming. This is the perfect bedtime book to snuggle up with when spring isn't coming fast enough.
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The suspense in this story-in-verse is of the gentlest sort. One dormouse sleeps the winter away, wishing for a visit from his dormouse friend ("He dreams of the days they can play hide-and-seek/ in the tall green grass by the whispering creek"). She has already set off on a journey to see him, and readers have the fun of anticipating the joy he'll feel when he awakens. Successive spreads show the hibernating dormouse curled up with his stuffed bunny, his dreams of playing with his friend, and the friend perched on the wing of a biplane, pillbox hat firmly on her head, pearl necklace streaming behind her. With tiny, densely worked pencil strokes and soft hues, Liwska (Waiting for Snow) depicts the winter adventures that unfold as the dormouse slumbers: wolves play, birds rescue a rabbit, skiers race. Wilson's (Dormouse Dreams) evocative language and sonic punctuation make for a fine readaloud, and Liwska breathes life into the entire forest community, making readers feel as though each creature has its own distinctive character and temperament. Ages 3 5.
