Let's Make It Silly!: Calming Fears of Bad Dreams

by Sonia Patel, Mentari (illustrator)

What's a kid to do when bad dreams strike? What's a parent to do?Hilariously calming and useful for kids and parents!
This sleepy time sherpa of a story is for kids and their loving yawning parents.
It has been written in rhyme format, because it’s more fun to read that way.
With a great deal of humor, creativity, and teamwork, Mia and Mom come up with a plan to conquer the anxiety that lingers when bad dreams come calling. I don't believe that big words should be excluded from children's books. There is a vocabulary page at the end of the book with simple definitions for any big or rarely used words.


This story is in no way intended to replace the soothing comforting arms of a parent, when a little one has a bad dream.
It is simply an additional tool that kids can use, even when they're older, to dispel the clouds of dread that linger after they have had nightmares or night scares.

Kindle Edition

Published March 4, 2024

About the author

Sonia Patel is a first-generation Indian American born in New York and raised in Hawai’i. Her break-out novel, RANI PATEL IN FULL EFFECT, was a finalist for the William C. Morris Debut Award, a YALSA and Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book, and received four-starred reviews. Her subsequent YA novels JAYA AND RASA: A LOVE STORY and BLOODY SEOUL both received the In the Margins Book Award. She contributed a short story—NOTHING FEELS NO PAIN—to the YA anthology AB(SOLUTELY) NORMAL: SHORT STORIES THAT SMASH MENTAL HEALTH STEREOTYPES. Her fourth YA novel, GITA DESAI IS NOT HERE TO SHUT UP, will be published Summer 2024. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii, Patel has spent over twenty years providing psychotherapy to youth and their families. She lives in Honolulu with her husband and teenage son, and misses her daughter who’s away at college.