When Joey, a bouncy happy kangaroo, has a series of bad dreams, his parents lovingly help him understand them. Children will be fascinated and enlightened as Joey learns to make sense of his bad dreams and to put himself back to sleep feeling comforted and in charge. The book has won numerous prestigious awards including: Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Ben Franklin Award: First Prize in Children s Picture Books Independent Publisher Award (IPPY Award) in the National Category of Children's Picture Books. Chosen by Independent Booksellers Across the Country for the Kids' Indie Next List. Creative Child Award: 2012 Book of the Year. 2012 Gelett Burgess Award. USA Book News Winner Best Book 2012 in two categories: Best Children's Picture Book and Children's Mind/Body/Spirit. Sharp Writ Award for Best Children's Book 2012. Foreword Book of the Year 2012. Eric Hoffer Award: 2013 Children's Literature. Mom's Choice Awards Highest Honor: Gold Seal of Excellence. Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval. 2012 International Book Awards: Award-Winning Finalist in the Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction Category.
As a parent of a toddler and a kindergartner we thank you for the peaceful nights this book has helped us to have! Prior to reading," Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream," our children would wake from bad dreams and we would try to reassure, comfort and convince them to go back to sleep. Many times we would just stay awake until our children fell back asleep or they would climb into our bed and fall asleep. Needless to say we all end up overtired and exhausted. We would try to talk to our children about their bad dreams both at the time they had them or repeatedly on the days after though nothing really seemed to help. We would tell them there were no monsters, bad guys or scary things in their room. We would check their rooms together but no matter how reassuring we were, from using "monster spray" to having them sleep with stuffed animals, we felt it really didn't work. Then we read this book! We didn't realize how important it was to help our children make sense of what their bad dreams were about so that they could understand them and not feel afraid. The concept of how their dreams are created from their everyday lives didn't really occur to us. We thought at first that this book was geared for our kindergartner, but we found when we just talked about the different pictures on the pages our toddler really enjoyed it too! With so many books out there, there are very few that address bad dreams and none of them do it with such clarity and understanding about how our kids think and feel about bad dreams.
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