The Butterfly Voyage

The Dream Travelers #2

by Cara Johnson

Anna Lane's adventures continue in this story when she travels back in time to help a boy who has lost his parents to the black plague. But Anna's help is cut short when she wakes suddenly to find that she has lost her magical black cat bone, the small piece of wood that allows her to travel. Disconnected from the boy and unable to reach Mama Do-Right, Anna asks her friend Alex to help her find the boy. Together they devise a plan to put Anna back in time only to discover that Anna doesn't need the black cat bone to travel. The doorway is her dreams. With Alex's help and Mama Do-Right's guidance, Anna learns valuable lessons about courage and faith and comes face-to-face with a family secret.

173 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Cara Johnson has written for a number of publications, but The Dream Travelers series represent her first children’s novels.

Cara calls herself an avid dream traveler and says she has been making nightly voyages since she was a young girl. Here, in her own words, is her story.

“It’s hard to know when the dreams began. They’ve been with me for as long as I can remember falling asleep at night. But I do remember, vividly, when the dreams began to change. I was seven years old. I had been talking to corner of my bedroom for a number of months, convinced that angels were watching me. So I talked to them and laughed with them and shared my life. Then one night, as I was falling asleep, I felt myself sinking and sinking and sinking until I knew I had sunk to a whole new place. And I wasn’t afraid because I knew my angels were watching me. So I taught myself how to travel in this place and I began taking trips every night. It got to the point where I could hardly wait to go to bed.

It was during my travels one evening that I heard a message in my mind. There was a young boy about to take a trip on an airplane for the very first time in his life. He was scared and alone and needed a friend. This boy was the first child I ever helped and there would be many to follow.

Now there was time in my life when I forgot about the angels in my corner and I forgot about my dream travels. I even forgot about the children I once helped. So I wrote these stories to help me remember and I offer them to you so that you may never forget. There is magic in yourselves and it all begins in your dreams.”