Dream Entry*
December 3, 2005
My friends and I are having a cookout. Bigfoot is standing by the grill twirling a spatula. His apron says: I flip for books. Beverly is spreading a paisley blanket on the ground. She’s shouting at Norman and three beagle puppies who keep chasing each other over the blanket and mussing it up. Morzant is flying a remote control airplane. As Mortimer parachutes from it, he recites the alphabet backwards. Penny is riding a stationary bike. I wonder how she manages to pedal with high heels. It doesn’t occur to me to wonder why she has legs and feet instead of her usual flippers.
A delicious aroma comes to me from the grill. Bigfoot flips a hamburger patty into a waiting bun held by a duck. The duck puts the hamburger onto a plate, then grabs another bun to catch another hamburger. When the plate is stacked high with hamburgers, he quacks out to Norman. Norman carries the plate to the paisley blanket which is now spread over a ping pong table. Bigfoot and the duck continue to prepare plates of hamburgers for each of my friends. I wait for the duck to quack out that my plate is ready, but he never does. He and Bigfoot take the two remaining plates and join everybody at the ping pong table. That’s when I notice the plates are full of books instead of hamburgers. I wake up just as Bigfoot squirts a dollop of ketchup under the cover of one of his books.
The books on BIGFOOT’s plate:
A BOY AND A BEAR IN A BOAT by Dave Shelton
[MIDDLE GRADE]
David Fickling-Random House
June 12, 2012
REUNITED by Hilary Weisman Graham
[YOUNG ADULT]
Simon & Schuster
June 12, 2012
MY LIFE NEXT DOOR by Huntley Fitzpatrick
[YOUNG ADULT]
Dial-Penguin
June 14, 2012
MARATHON by Boaz Yakin,
illustrated by Joe Infurnari
[YOUNG ADULT—GRAPHIC NOVEL]
First Second-Roaring Brook
June 19, 2012
LONE BEAN by Chudney Ross
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Amistad-HarperCollins
June 26, 2012
REBEL MCKENZIE by Candice Ransom
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Hyperion-Disney
June 26, 2012
The books on MORZANT’s plate:
THE FEAR by Charlie Higson
[YOUNG ADULT—THIRD IN THE ENEMY SERIES]
Hyperion-Disney
June 12, 2012
I, GALILEO by Bonnie Christensen
[PICTURE BOOK—NON-FICTION]
Knopf-Random House
June 12, 2012
THE MIGHTY MARS ROVERS: THE INCREDIBLE
ADVENTURES OF SPIRIT AND OPPORTUNITY
by Elizabeth Rusch
[MIDDLE GRADE—NON-FICTION—
SCIENTISTS IN THE FIELDS SERIES]
Houghton Mifflin-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 19, 2012
THIS IS NOT A TEST by Courtney Summers
[YOUNG ADULT]
St. Martin’s Griffin
June 19, 2012
The books on PENNY’s plate:
TOKYO HEIST by Diana Renn
[YOUNG ADULT]
Viking-Penguin
June 14, 2012
VIOLINS OF AUTUMN by Amy McAuley
[YOUNG ADULT]
Walker
June 19, 2012
SECRET LETTERS by Leah Scheier
[YOUNG ADULT]
Hyperion-Disney
June 26, 2012
The books on THE DUCK’s plate:
LIES BENEATH by Anne Greenwood Brown
[YOUNG ADULT]
Delacorte-Random House
June 12, 2012
KEEPING THE CASTLE by Patrice Kindl
[YOUNG ADULT]
Viking-Penguin
June 14, 2012
The books on NORMAN’s plate:
SUMMER AT FORSAKEN LAKE by Michael D. Bell,
with illustrations by Maggie Kneen
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Knopf-Random House
June 12, 2012
THE VINDICO by Wesley King
[YOUNG ADULT]
Putnam-Penguin
June 14, 2012
EARTHLING! by Mark Fearing
[MIDDLE GRADE—GRAPHIC NOVEL]
Chronicle
June 20, 2012
MONSTERS ON THE MARCH by Derek the Ghost,
with illustrations by Scott M. Fischer
[MIDDLE GRADE—SECOND IN
THE SCARY SCHOOL SERIES]
HarperCollins
June 26, 2012
THE BRIXEN WITCH by Stacy DeKeyser,
illustrated by John Nickle
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Margaret K. McElderry-Simon & Schuster
June 26, 2012
CHEESIE MACK IS COOL IN A DUEL
by Steve Cotler,
with illustrations by Adam McCauley
[MIDDLE GRADE—SEQUEL TO CHEESIE MACK
IS NOT A GENIUS OR ANYTHING]
Random House
June 26, 2012
The books on BEVERLY’s plate:
LAUGH WITH THE MOON by Shana Burg
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Delacorte-Random House
June 12, 2012
MY LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE
by Natasha Friend
[YOUNG ADULT]
Viking-Penguin
June 14, 2012
THE UNFORTUNATE SON
by Constance Leeds
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Viking-Penguin
June 14, 2012
BEING EMILY by Rachel Gold
[YOUNG ADULT]
Bella Books
June 26, 2012
RACING THE MOON by Alan Armstrong,
with illustrations by Tim Jessell
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Random House
June 26, 2012
The books on OLIVER’s plate:
HIDE & SEEK by Il Sung Na
[PICTURE BOOK]
Knopf-Random House
June 12, 2012
OINK-A-DOODLE-MOO by Jef Czekaj
[PICTURE BOOK]
Balzer & Bray-HarperCollins
June 12, 2012
THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF
MR. MORRIS LESSMORE by William Joyce,
illustrated by William Joyce and Joe Bluhm
[PICTURE BOOK]
Atheneum-Simon & Schuster
June 19, 2012
The books on LENNY’s plate:
MAGICAL MONTY by Johanna Hurwitz,
with illustrations by Anik McGrory
[CHAPTER BOOK—THIRD IN THE MONTY SERIES]
Candlewick
June 12, 2012
THE BEST BIKE RIDE EVER by James Proimos,
illustrated by Johanna Wright
[PICTURE BOOK]
Dial-Penguin
June 14, 2012
DRAGONS LOVE TACOS by Adam Rubin,
illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
[PICTURE BOOK]
Dial-Penguin
June 14, 2012
I KNOW A WEE PIGGY by Kim Norman,
illustrated by Henry Cole
[PICTURE BOOK]
Dial-Penguin
June 14, 2012
SQUID AND OCTOPUS:
FRIENDS FOR ALWAYS by Tao Nyeu
[PICTURE BOOK]
Dial-Penguin
June 14, 2012
DINOSAILING by Deb Lund,
illustrated by Howard Fine
[PICTURE BOOK—THIRD IN
THE DINO SERIES]
Harcourt-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 19, 2012
DON’T SQUISH THE SASQUATCH!
by Kent Redeker, illustrated by Bob Staake
[PICTURE BOOK]
Hyperion-Disney
June 19, 2012
MY SNAKE BLAKE by Randy Siegel,
illustrated by Serge Bloch
[PICTURE BOOK]
Roaring Brook
June 19, 2012
The books on VIOLET’s plate:
TWO FOR ONE by Kate DiCamillo and
Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile
[EARLY READER—SECOND IN THE
BING AND GOLLIE SERIES]
Candlewick
June 12, 2012
SMALL BUNNY’S BLUE BLANKET
by Feeney Tatyana
[PICTURE BOOK]
Knopf-Random House
June 12, 2012
DOG GONE by Leeza Hernandez
[PICTURE BOOK]
Putnam-Penguin
June 14, 2012
FOXY by Emma Dodd
[PICTURE BOOK]
HarperCollins
June 26, 2012
MONTY AND MILLI: THE TOTALLY
AMAZING MAGIC TRICK
by Tracey Corderoy, illustrated by Tim Warnes
[PICTURE BOOK]
Good Books
June 28, 2012
THE PERFECT PRESENT by Fiona Roberton
[PICTURE BOOK—SEQUEL TO
WANTED: THE PERFECT PET]
Putnam-Penguin
June 28, 2012
* The dream entries from Briar’s journal contain premonitions of books that will be published in the future. Briar’s dream self foresees the books’ summaries and knows which will likely appeal to each of her friends. Briar always wakes up before she can see whether her friends will enjoy the books.
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to Lies Beneath and This is Not a Test.
So you’d like to sample a little something from Morzant’s plate and the plate of that duck who keeps popping up in Briar’s dreams.
My own plate is plenty full. I tell you, it’s nice having psychic friends.
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