Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers, two distinguished children's book creators in a unique collaboration, invite the dreamer in everyone to share in a celebration of the coming of spring. Deep beneath the blanketing snow the earth is sleeping peacefully. But any child can sense the ice melting and revel in nature's dreams of summer—the expectant mother doe; a bird singing from an icy, glistening pine branch; field mice stirring in their burrows. As the days grow longer and snow yields to sifting rain and then to warm sunshine, look and listen as a young girl rejoices with all of nature's children at the return of spring.

Rosemary Wells's lyrical words and Susan Jeffers's luminous pictures—her first oil paintings in any book—make Forest of Dreams unlike anything else by either artist. Their vision will leave young readers exultant season after season.

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