One Night, ...

by Sara Rich

This bedtime adventure story chronicles the nightly travels of a young dreamer, who experiences “such strange and wonderful things.” The dreamer circles through space and time, enjoying the sights, sounds, and impossibilities of fantasy. Even after all the dreamer’s enchanting journeys, the child's travels are only completed upon waking up, safe and sound, in the familiar surroundings of home.

The book is structured so that each page can be read as an independent story, or they can all be read together. Anything but standard fare, the unusual illustration style adds a surreal quality to the stories, sure to inspire colorful dreams in children and bedtime storytellers alike.

28 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2014

About the author

Sara Rich grew up in rural Kansas, where she started writing short stories and poetry at the age of six. Nowadays, she writes weird and allohistorical fiction and has authored and illustrated childrens' books in English and Dutch (under the pseudonym Ann Henri). Her nonfiction works and illustrations have been published in numerous magazines and scholarly journals. Sara's dark fiction shorts have been featured by publishers of literary journals and anthologies based in the UK, Belgium, the US, and Cyprus. She earned a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Kansas (2003), an MA in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2008), and a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium (2013). After living in Belgium and the UK for 8 years, she has returned to the US and now teaches at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

My latest book being put to the test! 22-month-old Easton Rich will soon be composing a critical analysis on the book's place in the corpus of juvenile bedtime literature.