Sandman Time

The Sandman arrives not with darkness, but with invitation. In these early 20th-century verses, children are welcomed into a world where flowers close their petals like sleeping babies, where Sand-Men tiptoe through moonlit gardens, and where fairies gather for midnight balls beneath silver light. Each poem is a small doorway into that threshold moment between waking and sleep, when a child's imagination transforms the ordinary into something wondrous. The language is gentle and playful, the imagery vivid without being overwrought. This is a collection designed for that sacred bedtime ritual, when a parent reads aloud and the world of dreams begins to feel like a friend rather than an unknown. Gaylord understands that children do not fear the night so much as they crave its mysteries and these poems honor that craving with sincerity.