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Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para soñar

40 pp. | Cinco | September, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-933693-01-9 $17.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Esau Andrade Valencia. On the first day of summer, Octavio Rivera begins to dream. He shares these visions with his granddaughter Regina, who also experiences dreams as if they are "good friends who...console you when you're lonely." Sáenz's long, languorous sentences in English and Spanish beautifully evoke a dream state. Valencia's richly hued and textured surrealist tableaux are both accessible and inspired.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2009