The Dreams I'll Dream Tonight - by Sarah Ruhl (Hardcover)

About the Book

When it is time to go to bed, a child asks their parent to read them one more book to help them dream of only good things.

Book Synopsis

From celebrated two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, playwright, poet, and professor Sarah Ruhl comes a cozy sweet dreams guide book wherein a child empowers themself to fight their nightmares with whimsical images of love and comfort.

Read just one more book to me
The way you always do
Then I won't dream of dragons.
Instead, I'll dream of you.

When bad dreams and scary things threaten a child's peaceful sleep, they ask for one more bedtime story to fill their head with kittens, kisses, and the love they have for their family.

Review Quotes

"Children will enjoy reading or listening to the words and illustrations. Additionally, this title will help tame those bedtime woes of dreaded bad dreams and help turn it into a positive time for all."--School Library Journal

"Sweet dreams replace would-be nightmares in this surrealistically reassuring bedtime book."--Publishers Weekly

"A very welcome addition to the bedtime-story canon."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), The Clean House, and Eurydice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, around the country, internationally, and have been translated into many languages. Her book 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include Smile: A Memoir, Letters from Max, with Max Ritvo, and 44 Poems for You. The Dreams I'll Dream Tonight is her debut picture book. She has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award, the Feminist Press Under 40 Award, the National Theater Conference Person of the Year Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lily Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for mid-career playwrights. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tony Charuvastra, who is a child psychiatrist, and their three children. You can read more about her work at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

Sally Deng creates art for magazines, newspapers, books, and more in her Los Angeles studio. She is the author-illustrator of Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII and Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun and the illustrator of The Dreams I'll Dream Tonight by Sarah Ruhl. She was selected by Forbes 30 Under 30 for the 2020 Art & Style list and was named a Young Guns 16 winner by The One Club for Creativity. Her art has been recognized and exhibited in galleries across the United States.