Workman Publishing (Firm) - An Invitation to Dream: a bedtime companion to fill your sleep with wonder

An Invitation to Dream a bedtime companion to fill your sleep with wonder workman publishing new york It is a happiness
to wonder
it is a happiness
to dream . Edgar Allan Poe When I close my eyes, I want to discover... If we walk far enough,
said Dorothy,
we shall sometime come to someplace. L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination .

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air. C. S.

Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen

You seemed so far away,
Miss Honey whispered, awestruck. Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings,
Matilda said. It was wonderful. Roald Dahl, Matilda The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see whats in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening.... It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. anthony doerr, All the Light We Cannot See "So many worlds, so many wonders. anthony doerr, All the Light We Cannot See "So many worlds, so many wonders.

Terry Pratchett, The Long Mars "You take delight not in a citys seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the sea-harvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha The journey is the treasure. Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio Are you ready?
Klaus asked finally. No, Sunny answered. Me neither, Violet said, but if we wait until were ready well be waiting for the rest of our lives. Lets go. J.R.R. J.R.R.

Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Curiouser
and
curiouser!
cried Alice. Lewis Carroll, Alices Adventures in Wonderland "I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret