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Allsburg, C. V. (1982). Ben's dream. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

  1. Realistic Fiction
  2. On a rainy day, Ben has a dream in which he and his house float by the monuments of the world, half submerged in floodwater.

Aylesworth, J. (1985). The bad dream. Niles, IL: Whitman & Company.

  1. Realistic Fiction
  2. When a little boy is awakened by a bad dream, his parents comfort him by reminding him that nightmares are not real.

Bray, R. L. (1995). Martin Luther King. New York: Greenwillow Books.

  1. Biography
  2. About the life of Martin Luther King.

Feelings, T., & Greenfield, E. (1981). Daydreamers. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc.

  1. Realistic Fiction
  2. A book about children dreaming of new ways and ideas.

Fox, S. C. (1979). The blue horse. New York: The Seabury Press.

  1. Poetry
  2. A collection of 14 poems about sleeping, dreaming and waking.

Garrison, C. (1978). The dream eater. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press.

  1. Multi-Cultural
  2. Yukio saves the other villagers from recurring nightmares when he rescues a dream eating Baku.

Hopkins, L. B. (1982). And God bless me. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

  1. Poetry
  2. Prayers, lullabies, and dream-poems.

Hopkins, L. B. (1972). Go to bed! New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

  1. Poetry
  2. An anthology of poems depicting the pleasant and sometimes unpleasant aspects of bedtime.

Larrick, N. (1980). Bring me all of your dreams. New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc.

  1. Poetry
  2. A collection of poems about all manner of day and night dreams.

Larrick, N. (1983). When the dark comes dancing. New York: Philomel Books.

  1. Poetry
  2. A collection of poems, lullabies, and lyrics especially chosen to be read at bedtime.

Litowinsky, O., & Willoughby, B. (1978). The dream book. New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan.

  1. Non-Fiction
  2. Describes the various systems of dream interpretation devised by Freud, Jung, Fromm, and many of the dream explorers. Gives examples of diverse methods using actual children's dreams.

Nolan, D. (1990). Dinosaur dream. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

  1. Realistic Fiction
  2. After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby
  3. Apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backward through time to return it to its own time period.

Norman, H. (1997). The girl who dreamed only geese. Singapore: Harcourt Brace & Company.

  1. Folklore
  2. Folktales from Siberia, Alaska, Canadian Arctic and Greenland.

Singer, M. (1995). The morgans dream. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

  1. Poetry
  2. A collection of poems relating the nighttime dreams of a large family.

Zemach, H., & Zemach, M. (1970). Awake and dreaming. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

  1. Fantasy
  2. A witch empowers a young man to find untroubled sleep in a nightmare world.