Dreams for Our Daughters

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Warm, loving rhymes and tenderly detailed illustrations help readers imagine the thousands of adventures up ahead. The artwork is by turns whimsical, adventurous and energetic, addressing current issues such as climate change, Pride and the comparative importance of inner and outer beauty. POETRY Dreams for Our Daughters By Ruth Doyle, Illustrated by Ashling Lindsay, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2020, 32 pp.

This book is newly discovered treasure, glittering with promise and joy from the minute you open its covers. In this blog I hope to review 'books for boys' that I feel will help parents and primary school staff to pick stimulating stories to share with boys and girls too! The world is waiting just for you, ready for you to explore and find your place, in this mesmerising collaboration from Ruth Doyle and Ashling Lindsay. Her first book, The Night Box, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Klaus Flugge prize for illustration. This prescriptive poem represents an ideal for parents to share with their daughters, teaching parents that daughters must be taught to be doers and encouraged to be dreamers.Though things are opening up, covid cases are still high and a lot of our staff have only received one jab.

The illustrations flow across the pages, pulling you happily through the story with the same quality that Ashling Lindsay brought to her delicate but beautiful book The Night Box. Striking to look at and exhilarating to read aloud, this is very special and a lovely book to give to any little girl.An uplifting and inspirational picture book about the unique experiences and opportunities that children raised as girls will encounter in this sometimes troubling, challenging world.