Dreams (udgave 1992)

Roberto makes a paper mouse at school and becomes curious about what exactly the mouse does! That night while everyone else dreams it is said that Roberto does not. Instead he sees a cat trapped in a box by a dog. Suddenly the paper house starts fall down and the shadow scares the dog away. Imaginantion and creativeness plays a major role in this story! ( )

The dreams that everyone were having were represented by all kinds of different colors swirling around in each window. I thought that was a very clever way to show who was dreaming and who wasn't. I think this book would be a good bedtime story because it's fun and short and might get kids excited to go to sleep so they can dream too. ( )

ages 3-5 about a young boy who was proud of himself for making a paper mouse at school he shared his excitement with Amy. Amy asked if it did anything but boy didn't know but he dreamed what it could do. u tube.

This book is about dreaming. In the illustrations, you can see the building, and all the windows are lit up with light and when people start falling asleep and start dreaming their windows get colorful, representing that they're dreaming. Everyone in the building is dreaming but one, Roberto. His window is the only one that's pitch black. He then wakes up and looks out the window to see Archie's cat, getting chased by a dog. The cat is stranded and doesn't have anywhere to hide, so Roberto drops his paper mache mouse, and the mouse made a considerable shadow which frightened the dog, and the cat got away safely. The illustrations in this book are so eye-catching, they are so detailed, and the use of color and darkness is excellent. My favorite illustration would probably be when the mouse is falling the shadow is black, and it keeps getting bigger and bigger covering the page. It really shows how big the mouses shadow was on the building. ( )

Ezra Jack Keats was able to capture the dreams of people on Page “Soon everybody was dreaming..” through his illustrations. Each window in the apartment complex was light up and colored differently. Everybody has different dreams and wishes. While everybody else was dreaming, Roberto was awake. What he was able to witness was an unexpected hero, the paper mouse, falling from the window sill and saving the trapped cat. It is just was bizarre event that leads the reader to suspect that this too may have been a dream. The simplicity of the pages that have few words or text is Keats writing style. It gives the book a slow, dreamlike tone that helps captivate the elegance of the dreamers. ( )