★"Sweetly imaginative, linguistically rich, and featuring enlivening vocabulary with lots of active verbs and new and interesting nouns and adjectives, this offers a fresh entry in the familiar canon of bedtime reads. Children will be delighted by the various animals' activities and the notion that feathered, furred, and scaly sleepers like themselves enjoy nothing better than dreaming of kids. A delightful answer to the oft-asked question, do animals dream?" -
Kirkus Reviews, starred review "VanDerwater's lullaby of a picture book... (has) well-crafted, undulating rhymes... a lovely bedtime sendoff for animal-loving children that will leave them with ample imaginative fodder for their own dreams. -
Publishers Weekly
"Footie pajamas, a stuffy, and a bed begin this bedtime tale... (that) invites readers to imagine what animals see in their dreams. This picture book, filled with vibrant colors, is a bedtime story that will delight young animal lovers. A soothing addition." -
School Library Journal
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is the author of many children's books, including
Forest Has A Song, Every Day Birds, Read! Read! Read!, Dreaming Of You, and
With My Hands: Poems About Making Things, as well as the professional book
Poems Are Teachers: How Studying Poetry Strengthens Writing in All Genres. A former fifth grade teacher, Amy has taught writing for twenty years and blogs for students and teachers at The Poem Farm and Sharing Our Notebooks. Visit amyludwigvanderwater.com.
Aaron DeWitt graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2005. He previously illustrated
All the Ways I Love You by Theresa Trinder and
At Christmastime and Always, I Love You by Renee Daniels. Aaron Dewitt lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Visit aarondewittillustration.com.
