My Bed is an Air Balloon

Author(s): Copus, Julia, Jay, Alison
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 04/10/2018,
Pagination: 32 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571347711,
Description:

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 sleepingAnd 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 treesSwings me up high, like a circus trapeze.

Now the cool, night-rustling airSlips through my finger-gaps, ripples my hair;

Now we glide over water, the moon's silver lightBlown 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!