The Daydreamer
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The January cover of BfK features an illustration from No More Television!, the latest title from Philippe Dupasquier who is the subject of this month's Authorgraph. The book is published by Andersen Press and we're grateful to them for their help in using this on our front cover.
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The Daydreamer
Illustrated by Anthony Browne
Peter Fortune is a fairly normal child about 10 years old. There doesn't appear to be anything particularly special about him, just a quiet, indefinable oddness that causes people to regard him as 'difficult'. Through seven stories written in radiantly straightforward prose, we step into Peter's rhapsodic reveries as he experiences a series of hallucinatory adventures. A half-dismembered doll comes to life and leads a rebellion against him; he swaps flesh with a cat, a baby and an adult; he tames the school bully by convincing him that he's a figment of the collective imagination ... and so on. This is a delectable celebration of childhood's ability to fuse dream and reality into a magical unity. Indispensable reading for dreamers of all ages.
