AS FEATURED IN THE TIMES' BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE SUMMER!
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KLAUS FLUGGE PRIZE 2024.
A fun, wacky dreamworld adventure that makes for the perfect bedtime story from debut talent, author-illustrator Bia Melo!
Nina is not like the other children. She doesn't want to stay up late like the grown-ups do. In fact, she can't WAIT to go to sleep . . . because that's when dreams happen. She goes on amazing adventures to the jungle, explores cake villages and visits a city on wheels. When she wakes up she MUST tell everyone . . . but something strange is happening. Her dreams wiggle and twist, shrink and grow until they're nothing like her dream at all. And then one night, her dream isn't fun or exciting . . . but quite scary instead.
Join the determined heroine as she captures her dreams once and for all!
With its bright, bold illustrations, this bedtime book dives into early experiences of good and bad dreams. It explores dream journalling for the very young, making this the perfect book to share with little ones as they settle to sleep. The ideal companion for readers of You Choose Your Dreams, What Will You Dream Tonight?, Peace at Last and No Sleep for Bear.
[THE DREAM BOOK by Bia Melo was featured in The Times' Best Children's Books of the Summer on 30th June 2023]
With a lot of interest, Templar snapped up Bia Melo's debut picture book after she graduated from the prestigious MA in Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art.Bia's work was showcased in an exhibition at Fortnum & Mason as part of the Queen's jubilee celebrations in 2022, as well as at the Illustrator 65 exhibition in New York and the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles Illustration West exhibition in 2023.Bia has already been shortlisted and awarded a number of awards including, a finalist at the Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrator awards, a new talent finalist at the World Illustration Awards and been awarded highly commended at the Macmillan Prize.Bia's second picture is due to publish with us in 2024.Bia achieved her bright, bold illustrations in The Dream Book through a range of techniques with crayons.Cover treatments: matt lam, emboss and SPUV. 
