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Description edit
This edition of DreamTime is specifically written for Dads to read aloud to their children. The DreamTime cycle of rhyming poems and child-POV illustrations tells the REAL story of bedtime. Forget oopy-goopy lullabies! This book tells the story of "Wayfaring Dream Explorers and the Folks Who... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Mr. Sleep: He helps Daddy launch Dream Explorers into DreamTime.
- Daddy: He helps Mr. Sleep launch his beloved Dream Explorers into DreamTime. He's also reading this book aloud.
- The Grown-Ups: They're pretty useless once Dream Explorers set sail for DreamTime.
- Howler Snakes, Rhinocer-Monkeys, Poison-Dart Panthers, fierce Jungle Donkeys: Some of the pretty darned impressive critters that Dream Explorers sail past as they adventure through DreamTime.
Quotes edit
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““Grown-ups are noisy, but they're not courageous. What if a Howler Snake starts to engage us?...”“Mother, Father, try to stay calm. Quiet water's reverie's balm. Seasoned sailors know where to steer: we'll take the wheel from here...””
Setting & Locations edit
From a child's bedroom at night along a journey through DreamTime and back to the cozy safety of home with the morning's first light.
- In the bedroom at night: "The lamp that sits beside the bed/Shifts his shade and tips his head/Twists his switch until his light/Vanishes into the night."
- Floating down the hallway: As Dream Explorers drift into DreamTime, "The hallway is an Amazon/Murky waterway toward dawn./Walls stand in for forest trees.Ceiling forms a canopy..."
- On the dock: While Dream Explorers embark, Daddyy and Mr. Sleep wait for them to return: "When sleepers launch their slumb'rous ships,/We pull out our handkerchiefs,/Waving as they disappear,/'Bye for now! We'll be right here!' "
- Floating/Flying through DreamTime: "Whoa whoa whoa!/Yo-ho! What's this?/We sailed right off/A precipice! Over the edge,/Into the sky!/We're falling up--up?/My oh my!"
- Safe in bed with morning's light: "When it's time, Baby./Not 'til then./In this brightening-sightening,/Ever delighting place/You will way up again./You're in bed, Baby,/Tucked in tight./Let your waking rise/Lightly,/Then open your eyes."
First Sentence edit
“Oh, wasn't today just the roughest of days?/Wasn't today just the worst-est?/Big rubber boots in the wet-wet rain./Skies full of water submersed us...”
Table of Contents edit
1. Wasn't Today?
2. Someone Needs to Go to Bed
3. All Hands on Bed
4. Untethered
5. We Can't Take the Grown-Ups
6. Mr. Sleep and I
7. DreamTime Buccaneers
8. The Netherworld
9. The Sailors' Plea
10. Hop, Skip and a Star
11. Mommy, Please
12. Mr. Sleep and I Reprise
13. Return
14. Take Your Time
15. Glossary
Glossary edit
- This book includes a fun, full glossary at the back with both challenging and playfully made-up words.: Describe this term.
- Amphibilous: Made-up word suggesting something amphibian (like a frog).
- Cassiopeia: Constellation named for the wife of an ancient King of Ethiopia.
- Constellation: Configuration of stars.
- Winged Anacondas: Made-up name for snakes that can fly.
- Spyglass: Small portable telescope
- Slumbrous: Filled with sleep.
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Sleep as Adventure: These poems are designed to prime children for the fun of dreaming. They also reflect the high energy of adventurous chlldren. For children with night fears, they bring humor and counter-phobic fantasies of fun to the project of bedtime. For hyperactive children, these poems soothe by channeling their excitement.
- Poetry and Language are Fun: These poems play with words, word-rhythms and rhymes to tickle the ears (and brains) of word-learning children.
- Children are Artists: The illustrations in this book were created by Kenney Knisely when she was just six-years old. Everywhere I go with this book, I bring chalk and crayons, blackboards and paper, to remind the children I meet that they too can make a book.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in The DreamTime Series. (standard series)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Amanda McTigue (Author)
Subjects edit
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