Books like Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey
By Emily Winfield Martin
For the child who stalls at lights-out, this turns closing your eyes into the start of the adventure, not the end of the day. Soft, dreamy, and hushed, with a lulling rhyme made for slowing down.
A collection of poems imagines a curious inn run by poet William Blake, where dragons, angels, and a Man in the Moon all check in for the night.
A boy falls asleep holding a book and drifts into a wordless dream world where chess pieces come alive, a dragon appears, and landscapes shift from canyons into cities before his eyes.
A wide-awake girl insists she can only sleep in a blue room, so her mother brings flowers, tea, and lullaby bells — until moonlight itself swirls in to solve the problem.
A little bunny, tucked into bed in a great green room, says goodnight one by one to everything around him — the moon, the clocks, the mittens, the kittens — until sleep comes.
One ordinary Tuesday evening, a pond full of frogs suddenly rises into the air on their lily pads and drifts off to explore the sleeping town nearby.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
A drowsy kitten chases a mouse right through a framed poster on the wall, tumbling into a chase across famous artworks and through history — and then must find his way back home.
Smoke itself speaks in riddles, describing how it has signaled, flavored, healed, and mattered to people across centuries — from ancient fires to sacred ceremonies.
A rhyming picture book invites young readers to imagine life as a penguin, from waddling walks to devoted parenting, paired with detailed illustrations throughout.
A young inventor imagines the ultimate car — complete with a snack bar, a swimming pool, and a robot chauffeur named Robert — then takes it out for a wild test drive with his dad.
At bedtime, a little boy asks his mama again and again — what if he were a smelly skunk, a meat-eating dinosaur, a swamp creature — and she answers every wild what-if with love.
