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  • Published: 30 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241489819
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $27.99

The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons




A very special debut picture book from a phenomenal new writing talent

Albie dreams dragons... Some jewel-bright and fierce, some softly-scaled and whispery,
but whichever kind they are, they stay with him throughout the night and the next day too.

But the only trouble is that no one else can see Albie's dragons.

Or can they?

A very special picture book debut celebrating the imagination, with an emotional and reassuring message.

The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons, by award-winning Welsh writing talent, Caryl Lewis and illustrator Carmen Saldana, is perfect for any child who has felt different, whose imagination is big, and whose inner life is rich. With a stunning denouement celebrating connection, this is a book that will live on in the hearts and minds of its readers.

  • Published: 30 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241489819
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $27.99

About the authors

Carmen Saldana

Carmen Saldana lives in Gijon, a little rainy city in the north of Spain. She loves furry animals, birds, bugs, leaves and everything related with nature, her main source of inspiration for her illustrations.

Caryl Lewis

Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco (2004) is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Lewis herself - went on to win six Welsh BAFTAS and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2010 Celtic Media Festival. Lewis's other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. Lewis is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth. Drift is her debut novel in the English language.

Praise for The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons

Engaging, witty, reassuring and gorgeously illustrated with a lovely final twist

Daily Mail Children's Books of the Year

A clever and powerful celebration of the imagination

i newspaper

Beautifully rendered by illustrator Carmen Saldaña ... The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons is set in the present day but seems to hum with the history of Welsh legends.

Observer

This lovely picture book about imaginary friends, inner life and overcoming rejection is ideal for imaginative kids off to school.

Guardian