My Bed is an Air Balloon

Julia Copus
Illustrated by Alison Jay

An adorable picture book written by poet Julia Copus and illustrated by Kate Greenaway nominated Alison Jay.

2 in stock

£6.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571347711
Date Published
04.10.2018
Delivery
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Summary

When night falls my bed is an air balloon.
I sail through the slipsiverse, close by the moon.
I float above treetops where fluttertufts are sleeping
And flowering hills where the whifflepigs go creeping;
Ponds strung with starlight that glitter like glass,
A floog with her velvet nose bent to the grass.
Such treasures I spy on! My bed in the trees
Swings me up high, like a circus trapeze.
Now the cool, night-rustling air
Slips through my finger-gaps, ripples my hair;
Now we glide over water, the moon’s silver light
Blown by a cloudpuff into the bight,
Adrift on the sea where the dream-shapes float;
When night falls my bed is a sailing boat.

A beautifully presented picture book with two front covers, the text can be read from front to back and vice versa. The mirror form poem meets in the middle in a stunning centrepiece image as the two children in the story (twins, one in an air balloon, the other a sailing boat) meet in the clouds!

Critic Reviews

Brings playfulness and joy to bedtime storytime.

Read it Mom
Critic Reviews

So clever and simply wonderful!

BookNerdMommy
Critic Reviews

The details are delicious, and each page has something to savor.

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Julia Copus has published four collections of poetry and been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Costa Book awards. Her most recent collection, Girlhood, was published by Faber in 2019 and was the inaugural winner of the USA’s Derek Walcott Prize for best poetry collection by a non-US citizen. Other awards include First Prize in the UK’s National Poetry Competition…

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