Available March 2005 ISBN 1-55380-021-4 BISAC: JUV000000, JUV010000, JUV019000 7.5" x 10" 32 pp Hardcover Colour illustrations throughout $14.95 Cdn $11.95 US Poetry for ages 5 to 8

Join the children in this delightful picture book, children who dream of skateboarding through the galaxy, of meeting a guitar-playing hippopotamus, of feeding a baby brother who eats EXPLOSIVELY! Find the knock-kneed knight! Travel to Saskatchewan “without your socks and sandals on”—and by the end of the book you'll be walking with an elephant and dancing with an elephant seal, able to speak “Tuque Talk” and sing a “Great Lake Rag”! One of the poems asks: “How Big are You?” (“as small as a button, as big as a clue”)—and whether you're big or little or in between, there's something adventurous and happy for you in Dream Helmet, a superb companion piece to Vanilla Gorilla and Llamas in the Laundry. What happens when you put a “dream helmet” on? Why, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN—because you'll have the greatest of dreams!

You can ski every hill,
you can hold every curve,
you can dance, you can dodge,
you can swim, you can swerve–

And around every curve
is a rippling stream
to an ocean of stars
where you lie down to dream.

“From dreaming to streaming, from riding to sliding, Bill New’s poems and Vivian Bevis’s illustrations in Dream Helmet capture and celebrate the rhythms of childhood itself.” — Robert Heidbreder

William New is one of Canada’s outstanding men of letters: well known for his children’s books – Vanilla Gorilla and Llamas in the Laundry – his adult poetry and his literary criticism (some 30 volumes). For many years he was the editor of the journal Canadian Literature. He is presently on the board of the New Canadian Library and recently edited the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Canadian literature at the University of B.C. Vivian Bevis is the illustrator of both Vanilla Gorilla and Llamas in the Laundry. She was chosen by the Canadian Children’s Book Center to tour Ontario during Canadian Children’s Book Week. Both author and illustrator live in Vancouver.