Daydream Dan

by Sarah Garson

One day at school Dan has such an amazing daydream of jungles and pirates, mermaids and monsters, but his teacher is too busy with classroom routine to take any notice.

This is unlucky for her, because Dan’s dream comes to life in the classroom, and the final spread reveals her running for her life, chased by the children and the characters and creatures from Dan’s vivid imagination!

There are touches of Sendak and Browne in Garson’s energetic detail-filled illustrations, where real life merges with fantasy, representing perfectly the bizarre and random nature of dreams.

Publisher: Andersen Press

Sarah Garson

Sarah Garson studied a BA in Illustration at Middlesex University in London and has a Masters degree in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art. In 2006, Sarah was shortlisted for Booktrust’s Best Emerging Illustrator prize for Andersen title, The Grump, which was also highly commended by the prestigious Macmillan Picture Book Prize. Her subsequent books have gone on to be nominated by the Cambridgeshire Picture Book Award (Daydream Dan) and the Coventry Book Award (One, Two, Cockatoo!). She now lives and works in Melbourne, and divides her time between Australia and the UK.

http://www.sarahgarson.com/