Book recommendation: Ready to Dream

Buy it: Ready to Dream

Ready to Dream (By Donna Jo Napoli and Elena Furrow) – On a trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets an artist. Ally is excited to show the artist her own artwork. The artist teaches Ally that sometimes what Ally sees as “mistakes” in her own artwork can be the greatest part . For instance, her picture of a koala keeps curling up, just like a real koala. Ally draws all the animals and nature she sees on her trip and learns she can create art everywhere, sometimes with just sand and rocks.

The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!