Sweet Dreams: Poems and Paintings for the Child Abed

(Hardback)

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With 42 original poems by author Rick Telander and an equal number of full-page, full-color illustrations from 42 different artists from four countries, Sweet Dreamsis a beautiful, easy-to-read poetry collection in the fashion of Robert Louis Stevensons century-old classic, A Childs Garden of Verses.

is a work of caring for young boys and girls who must make that ordinary yet complex and sometimes frightening transition from waking reality to the land of Nod.

Sweet Dreams is a gift to all children, the way the best illustrated words can do.

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"Lifelong newswriter pens sweet bedtime poems! And has them illustrated by a wonderful collection of illustrator friends! It you are looking for sweet dreams--read all about it! right here." --Jon Scieszka, Library of Congress' first national ambassador for young people's literature

Author Bio

Rick Telander is a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a former senior writer for Sports Illustrated and ESPN: the Magazine. Telander has won the Illinois Sportswriter of the Year Award nine times, and in 2018 he was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the author of eight books, including In the Year of the Bull.