This book is a magical collection of seven bedtime stories for 6 to 9 year olds -- one story for each night of the week, each featuring one of the seven colours of the rainbow. The stories are all new, yet have a timeless, dreamy quality to them, which is perfect for sleepy night-time reading. The seven stories form a harmonious circle: the first story features a small girl wearing a dress as white as the stars, who discovers a casket of jewels in a forest of blue trees. In the last story, a pink butterfly flutters from an old woman's garden to a hut in the woods, where a girl in a white dress sleeps. In between are a host of other wonderful characters, including a red bird whose song inspires dreams, a boy with a golden flower, an astrologer who paints stars from his purple tower, fish that transport raindrop-jewels to an underwater sea cave, and a mother and baby possum who discover a mysterious green sanctuary. Parents and children alike will delight in the vivid imagery in these enchanting tales, which lead the imagination from the clear outlines of the waking world into the elusive realm of dreams.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2019 by SteinerBooks, Inc .

Luke Fischer is a writer, scholar and award-winning poet. He has taught at universities in the US and Germany, and lives in Sydney, Australia. Stephanie Young is a Waldorf graduate. She studied art in New York City, and currently lives in upstate New York with Tim Smith, their two children, hundreds of carpenter ants and about a dozen woodcutter bees. Tim Smith is an artist and rustic woodworker who grew up on the Australian east coast. He currently lives in upstate New York with Stephanie Young and their two children.