The Books
Dreams
Paperback, 40 pages
Published by Puffin (2000-10-09)
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Amazon Description
Roberto is excited about the paper mouse he made in school, until Amy asks, "Does it do anything?" Roberto isn't sure, so he leaves the mouse on his window sill and goes to bed. Before long his apartment building is quiet, but Roberto can't fall asleep. So he gets up to look out the window and sees Archie's cat being chased by a big, snarling dog! Roberto doesn't know what to do, but fate steps in and an unlikely hero comes to the cat's rescue."...a combination of acrylic painting and collage has never been more effectively employed than in this quiet tale." -The Horn Book
One Potato Review
The portrait of an artist as an insomniac whose humblest creations actually end up casting a larger, spectacular shadow while everyone else is sleeping. This is late model Keats, visually splashier and more enigmatic than some of his popular fables: make what you will of these plain-written characters, but also the painterly representations of dream-time in neighboring windows. No one alike. Striking, and accessible on many levels.
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