Books with title Daniel, the Dreamer

A delightful literary foray for adults and children alike, from the inexhaustible imagination of Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author Ian McEwan. In these seven exquisitely interlinked episodes, the grown-up protagonist Peter Fortune reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses, and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality, Peter experiences fantastical transformations: he swaps bodies with the wise old family cat; exchanges existences with a cranky infant; encounters a very bad doll who has come to life and is out for revenge; and rummages through a kitchen drawer filled with useless objects to discover some not-so-useless cream that actually makes people vanish. Finally, he wakes up as an eleven-year-old inside a grown-up body and embarks on the truly fantastic adventure of falling in love. Moving, dreamlike, and extraordinary, The Daydreamer marks yet another imaginative departure for Ian McEwan.

The Dreamer Seeker's older sister, Moira, has dreams and longings in her heart about the future. Trapper and Fantasy convince her that only in the World Beyond the Kingdom will her dreams come true. But they have lied to Moira. She doesn't realize that the path she has chosen will end in the Valley of Lost Dreams. The Doorkeeper didn't stop the children with his usual question, "Do you REALLY want to see the King?" Instead, he quickly opened the door just in time for the army of children to race through. They slid down the shining hallway—not for fun today, but just because it was faster than walking—and flung themselves through the door of the Throne Room. "King, King!" Seeker cried out. "Moira left the Kingdom!" "I know," the King said quietly. "You KNOW?!" Seeker exclaimed. "Then why don't you do something?! You have to go and get her and make her come back!" The King shook his head. "No, Seeker. Not until she really wants me to."

2015 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest Finalist"'Daniel' . . . rises up to join the 'Underpants' series (minus the potty humor, praise God!) and is hailed as the younger sibling of the 'Wimpy Kid' series for the elementary school set. If you're looking for a bedtime read, a book report option, a classroom read aloud, 'Daniel' is it!""This is no ordinary pencil," says the cat sitting on the end of nine-year-old Daniel's bed. "It's magic."Everything Daniel draws with his pencil--flying dragons, Octobears, and pizza-loving aliens from the planet Beezo--comes to life. It's pretty awesome until the pencil draws a line between Daniel and his best (and only) friend Annie.Come along with Daniel and his fantastic creatures on this fun-for-the-whole-family journey as he discovers that friendship is the greatest magic of all. Daniel's magic was intended for children ages 6 to 106. The book contains no pictures.

Once, there was a pig who admired birds. But he could never join them. Or could he?Thus begins the journey of a pig with big dreams, and the perseverance to make them come true. He develops flight plans, builds experimental contraptions, and has far-flung adventures, but at the end of the day, his favorite thing to do is still to sit and watch for those he loves best: the birds. Il Sung Na creates a world at once whimsical and aspirational, where anything is possible and, yes, even pigs can learn to fly.

The DreamerSeeker's older sister, Moira, has dreams and longings in her heart about the future. Trapper and Fantasy convince her that only in the World Beyond the Kingdom will her dreams come true. But they have lied to Moira. She doesn't realize that the path she has chosen will end in the Valley of Lost Dreams.The Doorkeeper didn't stop the children with his usual question, "Do you REALLY want to see the King?" Instead, he quickly opened the door just in time for the army of children to race through. They slid down the shining hallway—not for fun today, but just because it was faster than walking—and flung themselves through the door of the Throne Room."King, King!" Seeker cried out. "Moira left the Kingdom!""I know," the King said quietly."You KNOW?!" Seeker exclaimed. "Then why don't you do something?! You have to go and get her and make her come back!"The King shook his head. "No, Seeker. Not until she really wants me to."

Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.

The story is one which I invented on the fly, over the course of months, to help my toddler get to sleep. He experiences serious FOMO around bedtime and I wanted to tell a story that has no predetermined ending and gives him permission to dream as far as he can imagine. There are some philosophical groundings here as I am riffing on Zhuangzi's Butterfly Parable, that one is merely a butterfly dreaming of being a person.Starting at a dreaming child and moving to animals and then to abstract concepts, this story encourages creative thinking while being a calming, dreamy guided meditation about the connectedness of all things. While the book eventually ends, the reader may continue going deeper into more elaboration until the kiddo is asleep. A they/them book because pronouns matter.

A fight. That is the common denominator in all of Matt Schwartz’s life-changing events. There are ones he’ll never remember and there are those he’ll never forget. As he pursues his dream, he finds out that the most important ones don’t involve his fists but the people he cares about the most. But what is his dream? Is it fighting in a cage? Is it pursuing the love of his life? Or is it escaping the reality of being abandoned by parents he never knew? All he knows is he has to find out and he’ll do whatever it takes to find happiness.

A breathtaking novel from Pura Belpre Award winner, Pam Ryan, and MacArthur fellow and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter Sis!Neftali finds beauty and wonder everywhere: in the oily colors of mud puddles; a lost glove, sailing on the wind; the music of birds and language. He loves to collect treasures, daydream, and write--pastimes his authoritarian father thinks are for fools. Against all odds, Neftali prevails against his father's cruelty and his own crippling shyness to become one of the most widely read poets in the world, Pablo Neruda. This moving story about the birth of an artist is also a celebration of childhood, imagination, & the strength of the creative spirit. Sure to inspire young writers & artists.