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The Blue Forest

Bedtime Stories for the Nights of the Week
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This book is a magical collection of seven bedtime stories for 6 to 9 year olds -- one story for each night of the week, each featuring one of the seven colours of the rainbow. The stories are all new, yet have a timeless, dreamy quality to them, which is perfect for sleepy night-time reading. The seven stories form a harmonious circle: the first story features a small girl wearing a dress as white as the stars, who discovers a casket of jewels in a forest of blue trees. In the last story, a pink butterfly flutters from an old womans garden to a hut in the woods, where a girl in a white dress sleeps. In between are a host of other wonderful characters, including a red bird whose song inspires dreams, a boy with a golden flower, an astrologer who paints stars from his purple tower, fish that transport raindrop-jewels to an underwater sea cave, and a mother and baby possum who discover a mysterious green sanctuary. Parents and children alike will delight in the vivid imagery in these enchanting tales, which lead the imagination from the clear outlines of the waking world into the elusive realm of dreams.

Luke Fischer is a writer, scholar, and award-winning poet. He is the author of the poetry collection Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013), the monograph The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems(Bloomsbury, 2015), as well as poems, translations, and articles in journals, anthologies, and academic volumes. He won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize, and was commended in the 2013 FAW Anne Elder Award for a first book of poems. In 2008, he was awarded a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and Germany and lives in Sydney, Australia.

1. The Blue Path
2. The Red Bird
3. The Golden Flower
4. The Purple Tower
5. The Orange Fish
6. The Emerald Hollow
7. The Pink Butterfly

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