When My Baby Dreams

by Adele Enersen, Adele Enersen (Illustrator)

Overview

Sometimes, Mila dreams she’s a butterfly . . . .

Sometimes, she’s a bookworm . . .

Or a surfer girl , or even an astronaut.

When Mila dreams, she can be anything.

From the brilliant mind of new mother Adele Enersen comes this imaginative journey through the irresistible dreamscapes of a newborn. A love letter to babies everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062071750
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/03/2012
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	10.30(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

When Adele Enersen's daughter, Mila, was born, Adele started a blog of whimsical baby photos to share with her friends and family. Very quickly that blog, milasdaydreams.blogspot.com, boomed into a destination for millions of admirers around the world and also became a book called When My Baby Dreams. A former copywriter and concept designer in advertising, Adele now spends her days photographing Mila and imagining new dreamscapes for her growing daughter.

When Adele Enersen's daughter, Mila, was born, Adele started a blog of whimsical baby photos to share with her friends and family. Very quickly that blog, milasdaydreams.blogspot.com, boomed into a destination for millions of admirers around the world and also became a book called When My Baby Dreams. A former copywriter and concept designer in advertising, Adele now spends her days photographing Mila and imagining new dreamscapes for her growing daughter.

Editorial Reviews

Libraries that cater to the very youngest children and their parents will want to add this simple, lovely book to their collections.” — School Library Journal

From the Publisher

PreS—This imaginative book grew out of Enersen's blog displaying photos of her new baby daughter for family and friends. Pastel spreads have a few words of text on one side that speculate about the child's dream and a simply framed, color photo opposite. Various materials and props are used creatively around the baby to suggest flowers, trees, animals, etc. For example, in one spread the child is posed against a "sky" full of stars, and on another she is on the grass "petting a little lamb." Libraries that cater to the very youngest children and their parents will want to add this simple, lovely book to their collections.—Judith Constantinides, formerly at East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, LA

School Library Journal

A picture book inspired by Enersen's popular blog, which features artistic and whimsical photographs of her daughter, Mila. The narrative begins, "These are Mila's dreams." Each page spread that follows features a photograph of a sleeping Mila with fabrics and household items arranged around her to create a scene intended to represent her dreams and an accompanying explanation. For example, a photograph of Mila in which she sleeps atop a fabric skyscraper and grasps a tiny car in her hand is accompanied by the following text: "When my baby dreams of being big… / she grows tall enough to take over the city." In the next photo, sleeping Mila is placed on a black background filled with stars made of aluminum foil and a couple of colorful planets. A paper plate behind Mila's head makes her look like an astronaut. In this dream, she is "gigantic enough to conquer the universe." It is not surprising that Enersen's quirky, creative photographs trough a large audience to her blog. The babies and preschoolers, however, for whom this book was presumably designed, will likely find much less appeal in this series of photos of one sleeping baby. The prose serves primarily to transition between photos and is also likely to appeal much more to parents than to their little ones. Not the first book for adults to masquerade as a children's book, but one of the more interesting. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews