My Bed Is an Air Balloon by
Julia Copus with illustrations by Alison Jay is an imaginative bedtime story
told in rhyme.
Both words and pictures carry readers through a
fanciful world where a cozy bed transforms from hot-air balloon to sailing boat
as it carries a pair of young dreamers from one fantastical encounter to
another.
The gentle rhythm and soft-edged images create
a dreamy landscape of “velvet-nosed floogs” and “whifflepigs” that can be read
from both front and back in this mirrored story that features two front covers.
A boy begins the journey floating “above treetops where fluttertufts are
sleeping” and drifting over “ponds strung with starlight that glitter like
glass.” When he reaches the book’s center high among the clouds, he meets a
girl in a colorful double page spread. At the next page turn, her encounters spread
across the remaining pages in reverse.
A charming tale for bedtime reading with
children 3-6.
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