Dream Coach

A Newbery Honor Book from 1925, Dream Coach invites young readers into a realm where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and the sleeping mind wanders free. Anne Parrish crafts stories of children who climb aboard a coach drawn by dreams, journeying through landscapes where logic bends and wonder rules. These tales capture that peculiar space between waking and sleeping, when the mind slips free of its waking constraints and wanders into the surreal. The writing has a gentle, fleeting quality, like trying to hold onto a dream at the moment of waking. It's perfect for bedtime reading, each chapter a small voyage into the strangeness that lives just beneath the surface of sleep. Some cultural depictions in the book reflect the era in which it was written.