Stories are powerful things, and sometimes the best gift we can give to those we love are the stories that we know. The sharing of a tale becomes a shared experience, and it is also allows us to give someone we care about our time and our companionship.
Today's book, with its gorgeous photographic artwork and its charming main character, celebrates the joy that storytelling gives to the teller and the listener.
Hank has a dream
Today's book, with its gorgeous photographic artwork and its charming main character, celebrates the joy that storytelling gives to the teller and the listener.
Hank has a dream
Rebecca Dudley
Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Peter Pauper Press, 2014, 978-1-4413-1158-0
One morning Hank wakes up and he runs to tell his friend
the hummingbird all about the wonderful dream that he had. In the dream, Hank,
who is alone, flies up into the sky in a hot air balloon. One would expect that
little Hank might be afraid to go on such an adventure up into the sky, but he
is not afraid at all.
Hank shows his
little friend how, in his dream, he sailed down a path, a path that is much
like the real path that wends its way through their forest home. As he sits on
a little bridge over a stream Hank tells the hummingbird how the path led “all
the way to the sea.”
In his dream
Hank went higher and higher; he went far away, “past the trees” and up into the
clouds, and then above them. Then he came “whooshing down” again. Hank never
imagines that the description of his dream is going to have a profound effect
on his little avian friend; that his dream is going to become a story worth
hearing over and over again.
This charming
picture book brings back the little monkey that we met in Hank Finds An Egg. This time Hank shares something precious with a
best friend, and at the end of the narrative we see how he goes on to give his
friend an even greater gift.
Using handmade
characters made of fabric and felt, and wonderful backgrounds using paper,
fabric and other materials, the author of this book has created an atmospheric
picture book that will charm readers of all ages.