Dreams Are More Real Than Bathtubs

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Grownups sometimes tell you that dreams are not real. This little girl knows differently. In her world, dreams are much more real than bathtubs, houses, purple shoes, worms ... even the first day of school. Sometimes the dreams are fun; sometimes the dreams are scary. But, more importantly, the dreams tell her about the feelings she has inside. And if she can just get through it, that first day she's worried about might not be so bad. After all, dreams are even more real than school. And she's not just dreaming, ...
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Grownups sometimes tell you that dreams are not real. This little girl knows differently. In her world, dreams are much more real than bathtubs, houses, purple shoes, worms ... even the first day of school. Sometimes the dreams are fun; sometimes the dreams are scary. But, more importantly, the dreams tell her about the feelings she has inside. And if she can just get through it, that first day she's worried about might not be so bad. After all, dreams are even more real than school. And she's not just dreaming, you know.
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Using self-consciously childlike phrasings and digressions, the text introduces a girl who dreads the first day of school. Gay (Lizzie's Lion) presents the narrator as a tiny waif with two waist-length black braids and "one gone tooth," who clutches a brown stuffed lion. The girl begs her mother to let her "stay up early tonight" in order to delay her anxious dreams of wild animals and magic: "My mum says there is such things as fear-us tigers and witches because dreams are real. Dreams are more real than bathtubs. Dreams are more real than houses." The plot itself unfolds like a dream, with non sequiturs galore. Gay, in her mixed-media illustrations drawn on handmade and textured papers, supports the hybrid descriptions of real and imaginary occurrences by refusing to ground the action. On one page the girl watches a scary movie on top of a planet, on the next she flies over a city in a red bathtub, and on the next she awakens in her bed. With scant transition, she's soon on the school playground, where bullies glare at her but one girl befriends her. The friendship seems to have an uplifting effect on the protagonist, but the story's message remains in doubt. The flighty plotting and pictures lack cohesion, and the too-precious diction gives no reassurance against the uncertainty the child faces through the course of the book. Ages 4-8. (Feb.)
Children's Literature
This award-winning author did not grab my interest with this book. The little girl in the story deals with some pretty bad dreams. Having her whole head eaten off by a hot dog chasing her and a "fear-us tiger" crashing through her curtains as she sleeps is not my idea of what I would like to sit down and read to my daughter. The text fell short of my expectations. When I picked up the book, I was drawn in by the unique pictures and expected the story line to follow. I was disappointed. The illustrations, however, are outstanding. Marie-Louise Gay did a superior job of drawing pictures around words and using the entire page to display her imaginative artwork. 1998, Orca Book Publishers, $17.95. Ages 4 to 6. Reviewer: Sharon Tolle
Children's Literature - Kristin Harris
The little girl is pretty wild and independent. She does not want to go to sleep because she has bad dreams. One such bad dream involves a hot dog eating her head off. Another bad dream was about her mom being a witch. Sometimes her mom lets her leave her lamp on if she is afraid of the dark. Life gets even more complicated when she starts first grade and gets bullied. At lunchtime she meets a friend, and all is well again. Very whimsical illustrations add to the silliness of this story about real fears.
School Library Journal
K-Gr 2-This Canadian import deals in a lighthearted way with childhood fears, including nightmares and the first day of school. A little girl likes to "stay up early" because she has bad dreams about tigers, witches, and sometimes man-eating hot dogs. She talks about her concerns and is comforted by Lion, her favorite stuffed animal, which she takes into her bath, to bed, and to school. Told in the first person, this narrative uses a childlike vocabulary and sentence structure. The youngster dreams of "fear-us tigers" and has one "gone tooth." Gay's colorful illustrations have exaggerated heads and undersized arms and feet, suggestive of children's art. This is an acceptable supplemental purchase, but it is not an essential one. Mercer Mayer's There's a Nightmare in My Closet (Dial, 1968) is still a great choice.-Roxanne Burg, Thousand Oaks Library, CA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
The dream phantasms of a high-spirited narrator intersect, even crowd, reality, but the stream-of-consciousness text makes for a rambling, radically personal tale. Playful images of a stuffed lion, trampoline, purple shoes, and a cat named Pine-Cone take hold in a young girl's imagination, despite her "old" mother who makes her go to bed when she'd rather "stay up early" and a big sister with a cranky disposition. At home, she likes counting flea bites and pretending to be a worm, but is afraid of the dark and going to Grade One. The second half of the book takes off in a separate first-day-of school direction. Wild dreams precede the big day, which includes bullies on the playground and instant friend Chelsea. The childlike articulations of the text are endearing, but not quite of universal interest, and don't add up to a compelling story; children may more readily warm to Gay's illustrations, which include a dreamlike flying cat, a menacing hot dog, and an uproarious stuffed toy looming over everyday domestic scenes. (Picture book. 4-7) .
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781551431079
  • Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/1/1999
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 10.00 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.30 (d)

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