Dream Days

Dream Days is Kenneth Grahame's warmly nostalgic celebration of childhood's private kingdoms, where ordinary life is constantly remade by loyalty, fantasy, and comic self-importance. Companion to The Golden Age and richly matched to Maxfield Parrish's dreamlike illustrations, these stories move from domestic squabbles to heroic reveries, capturing the way children turn grievances, rituals, and small accidents into epics. In "The Twenty-First of October," Selina's passionate devotion to Trafalgar Day ignites a garden bonfire that becomes a tribute to Nelson, only to end in Aunt Eliza's punishment and a poignant collapse of triumph into shame. Other tales follow a young dreamer through tears, resentment, and revenge fantasies that expand into pirates, generals, island kingdoms, and imagined voyages, while also revealing a deeper longing for freedom, sympathy, and a world that makes sense. Humor, tenderness, and enchantment mingle throughout, as Grahame finds beauty in mischief, memory, and the fierce seriousness of childhood imagination. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.