Come With Me! I'll Meet You In Your Dreams by Jessica Young

I'LL HITCH A RIDE ON MOONBEAMS,

AND MEET YOU IN YOUR DREAMS.

ADVENTURES WAIT FOR FOR YOU AND ME.

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE...

In a series of fantasy adventures between both mother and child and father and child, Jessica Young's lyrical poetry, parenthood is portrayed in gloriously lovely paintings by artist Rafael Lopez, swirling and flowing forward through the pictorial passage from infant in arms to full adulthood. In parallel verse a series of imaginative scenes show a parent leading the child, both a girl and a boy, as they mature and their parents grow older.

I'LL BE THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND YOU'LL BE THE SHIP...

WE'LL BE TWO STARS TWINKLING BRIGHT.

Author and illustrator combine to set up lovely metaphorical adventures as the child learns and grows and parents grow older. The parents promise to be there through it all, until...

"YOU'LL TRAVEL PLACES I CAN'T SEE--"

Young's I'll Meet You in Your Dreams (Little, Brown and Company, 2021) is an inspiring book for new parents and an imaginative story that reassures children that their parents are also on that long and important journey with them. Writes Publishers Weekly, "As the children strike out on their own, the text nods to differing life paths... in a bedtime fantasy of love, possibility, and acceptance."