A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un Tiempo Perfecto Para Soaar [Spanish]

By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Book Overview

In this stunning bilingual picture book from bestselling author Benjamin Alire S enz, an old man tells his granddaughter about the nine most beautiful dreams of his life.

En este impactante libro ilustrado biling e del exitoso autor Benjamin Alire S enz, un anciano le cuenta a su nieta los nueve sue os m s hermosos de su vida.

Seventy-eight year-old Octavio Rivera is a beautiful dreamer. And lately he has been visited by some very interesting dreams--dreams about pi atas that spill their treasures before him, revealing kissing turtles, winged pigs, hitchhiking armadillos, and many more fantastic things He longs to tell someone about his dreams, but who else in his life would understand their full beauty? And then he remembers his young granddaughter Regina, because she too appreciates beautiful and fantastic things. Once he tells her, his heart at rest, Octavio prepares for his siesta, hoping to be blessed with one long, last, lovely dream.

With gorgeous folk art-inspired illustrations and the humor and depth of all Benjamin Alire S enz's work, A Perfect Season for Dreaming unfolds the sweet possibilities in relationships between the very old and the very young.

Octavio Rivera, de setenta y ocho a os, es un bello so ador. Y ltimamente ha sido visitado por algunos sue os muy interesantes: sue os sobre pi atas que derraman sus tesoros ante l, revelando tortugas bes ndose, cerdos alados, armadillos pidiendo aventones a un festival literario, y muchas m s cosas fant sticas Anhela contarle a alguien sobre sus sue os, pero qui n m s en su vida entender a toda su belleza? Y luego recuerda a su joven nieta Regina, porque ella tambi n aprecia las cosas bellas y fant sticas. Una vez que l le dice, con el coraz n en paz, Octavio se prepara para su siesta, con la esperanza de ser bendecido con un largo, ltimo y hermoso sue o.

Con magn ficas ilustraciones inspiradas en el arte popular y el humor y la profundidad de toda la obra de Benjamin Alire S enz, Un tiempo perfecto para so ar despliega las dulces posibilidades en las relaciones entre los muy viejos y los muy j venes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 1933693622
• ISBN13: 9781933693620
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

A perfect book about dreams, passion, and joy

Benjamin Alire Sáenz's poetry shines in this lush book. Aesop's ants have nothing on our protagonist whose afternoon dreams drive his journey through shame into passion, trust, and joy. "A Perfect Season for Dreaming" validates a worldview shared by children and artists of all ages. The textual imagery lends itself well to Esau Andrade Valencia's gorgeous illustrations.

Great text, beautiful illustrations

A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un Tiempo Perfecto Para Soaar [SPA-PERFECT SEASON FOR DREAMIN] [Spanish Edition] I've gotten two copies of this lovely volume for young folks, one primarilly English speaking, and the other primarilly Spanish speaking. I'm thoroughly pleased with my choice.

great gift book

I have two grandnieces(almost grandkids) both turning 8 this year so THe COUSINS have to have everything alike. Next birthday is May so I;ve already ordered the two books and they are really delightful......

A brilliantly illustrated storybook

Prize-winning children's author Benjamin Alire Saenz presents Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un Tiempo Perfecto Para Sonar, a bilingual English/Spanish children's picturebook about an old man who enjoys the most beautiful summer dreams. He is too nervous to tell anyone about them, since they are as strange as they are wondrous; he fears that no one will understand. But the dreams fill him with so must joy that he must tell someone or burst, and at last he dares to confide in his granddaughter, who also experiences the mystery of beautiful and fantastic dreams. Happier for having shared his secret, he enjoys one more splendid dream. Mexican-born artist Esau Andrade Valencia, whose work has been featured in museums, brings the marvelous dreams to vivid life in this brilliantly illustrated storybook.