A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para soñar.
Reviewed by Roxanne Landin, Fremont Area District Library, Fremont, MI -- Críticas, 5/15/2008
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire.
tr. by Luis H. Crosthwaite. illus. by Esau Andrade Valencia. U.S.: Cino Puntos Press. 2008. 40p. ISBN 978-1-933693-01-9. $17.95.
Gr 1-3–Octavio Rivera is a dreamer. He snoozes under a tree on the first summer afternoon, and dreams of a guitar falling from a piñata. On the second afternoon, while napping on the grass, he dreams of two giant turtles falling from the piñata. As his dreams continue, he suddenly gets the urge to tell someone about them, but he can’t decide who. The urge gets stronger as the days go by, and on the eighth day, after dreaming of four girls and four boys falling from the piñata, he realizes that he can talk to his granddaughter. He takes her to the park and reveals all the things he has dreamed of. Told with poetic text and colorful, full-page acrylic illustrations filled with surreal imagery, this is an attractive bilingual title. Particularly moving is the special connection between the old man and the child. Recommended for all libraries and bookstores.
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