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Dear Reader,
As children contend with an increasing number of challenges in our uncertain world, I've become even more interested in writing about the bonds of steadfast love.
For this book, I imagined a story where the wind calls out to a grown-up and child, prompting them to go on a magical nighttime adventure. I used rhyme to heighten the sense of magic and lyricism, and metaphor to reaffirm the grown-up's unbreakable bond with the child: you and I are salt and sea/ boat and sail/ light and moon. Lastly, I wanted the return home to be not just the end of the story, but the beginning of a bigger adventure as the two of them drift into dreamland on an even bigger boat. I hope that children will disappear into Richard Jones' illustrated world, filled with hidden surprises which they will continue to discover upon repeated readings.
"The epitome of a bedtime book." --The Horn Book
"Dreamy… an anchoring bedtime send-off." --Publishers Weekly
--Kate Hosford
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