Dream Entry
Date: May 25, 2003*
Being chased by an angry Golden Retriever. Don’t know why. Have to keep running. He’s gaining on me. The sidewalks are crowded. I’ll have to cross the street. There’s one squat building on the other side. On the bottom of its front door is a flap—a dog door big enough for me, but not the Golden Retriever. It’s my only hope.
No peripheral vision. Can’t take the time to turn my head to look for cars, so I jump into the street and run across. Horns blast, people shout. I bound up the curb and across the wet lawn to the dog door. It’s a tight squeeze, but I’m through. I turn to see a paw swipe through the flap. It’s the size and color of a Golden Retriever’s paw, but it’s not a Golden Retriever’s paw. The flap swings back and I see a Golden Retriever-sized squirrel. He’s chattering angrily at me, but he can’t get in. I howl at him. Somebody shushes me.
I turn to see who. It’s an older woman with the hint of a moustache. She has a hairy-knuckled finger to her lips. “Quiet in the library she says.” I turn back to the flap and the giant squirrel paw reaching through, then back again to the woman. Only now she's changed into Bigfoot. He’s holding a plate of peanut butter cookies.
He walks away. At first I can’t find him in the rows and rows of shelves, but I track down the smell of the peanut butter cookies. He is standing in a dark aisle, facing the books. Above each shelf in this aisle is a plaque with the name of one of my friends. There is a shelf for Bigfoot, Morzant, Penny, Norman, and Beverly. And there are three names I don’t recognize: Oliver, Lenny, and Violet.
“Keep track of the books and you can have a cookie,” Bigfoot says.
I examine the spines of the books. There are no titles on the book spines, but when I look at them, I know what they are and when they will be.
I wake up with a strong feeling that this dream is precognitive, so I write down the books I remember:
On BIGFOOT’s Shelf:
GUYS READ: FUNNY BUSINESS by Jon Scieszka and others
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Walden Pond Press-HarperCollins
September 21, 2010
THE 10 P.M. QUESTION by Kate De Goldi
[YOUNG ADULT]
Candlewick
September 28, 2010
On MORZANT’s Shelf:
ZOMBIES VS. UNICORNS
edited by Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier
[YOUNG ADULT]
Margaret K. McElderry-Simon & Schuster
September 21, 2010
On PENNY’s Shelf:
THE TWIN’S DAUGHTER by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
[YOUNG ADULT]
Bloomsbury USA
August 31, 2010
THE DANGER BOX by Blue Balliett
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Scholastic
September 1, 2010
THE REPLACEMENT by Brenna Yovanoff
[YOUNG ADULT]
Razorbill-Penguin
September 21, 2010
On NORMAN’s Shelf:
BINKY TO THE RESCUE by Ashley Spires
[MIDDLE GRADE—SECOND BINKY ADVENTURE]
Kids Can Press
September 1, 2010
THE CLOUD SEARCHERS by Kazu Kibuishi
[MIDDLE GRADE—THIRD IN THE AMULET SERIES]
Graphix
September 1, 2010
FRAMED by Gordon Korman
[MIDDLE GRADE—THIRD IN SERIES AFTER SWINDLE AND ZOOBREAK]
Scholastic Press
September 1, 2010
LILLY AND THE PIRATES
by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Rob Shepperson
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Boyds Mills
September 1, 2010
THE KNEEBONE BOY by Ellen Potter
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Feiwel & Friends-Macmillan
September 14, 2010
THE GENIUS WARS by Catherine Jinks
[YOUNG ADULT—THIRD IN TRILOGY]
Harcourt
September 27, 2010
On BEVERLY’s Shelf:
THE KID TABLE by Andrea Seigel
[YOUNG ADULT]
Bloomsbury USA
September 14, 2010
OCTAVIA BOONE’S BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT LIFE, UNIVERSE
AND EVERYTHING by Rebecca Rupp
[MIDDLE GRADE]
Candlewick
September 14, 2010
THE THINGS A BROTHER KNOWS by Dana Reinhardt
[YOUNG ADULT]
Wendy Lamb Books-Random House
September 14, 2010
ANCIENT, STRANGE, AND LOVELY by Susan Fletcher
[MIDDLE GRADE—FOURTH IN THE DRAGON CHRONICLES]
Atheneum-Simon & Schuster
September 21, 2010
SOPHIE SIMON SOLVES THEM ALL
by Lisa Graff, illustrated by Jason Beene
[CHAPTER BOOK]
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 28, 2010
On OLIVER’s Shelf:
RESCUE BUNNIES by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Scott Menchin
[PICTURE BOOK]
Balzer & Bray
August 31, 2010
THERE ARE NO CATS IN THIS BOOK by Viviane Schwarz
[PICTURE BOOK]
Candlewick
September 14, 2010
On LENNY’s Shelf:
THE DAY THE COW SNEEZED by James Flora
[PICTURE BOOK]
Enchanted Lion
September 1, 2010
CHILDREN MAKE TERRIBLE PETS by Peter Brown
[PICTURE BOOK]
Little, Brown
September 7, 2010
LULU AND THE BRONTOSAURUS
by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Lane Smith
[CHAPTER BOOK]
Atheneum-Simon & Schuster
September 14, 2010
On VIOLET’s Shelf:
DIARY OF A BABY WOMBAT
by Jackie French, illustrated by Bruce Whatley
[PICTURE BOOK]
Clarion-Houghton Mifflin
September 13, 2010
KNUFFLE BUNNY FREE: AN UNEXPECTED DIVERSION
by Mo Willems
[PICTURE BOOK]
Balzer & Bray
September 28, 2010
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