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Netgalley ARC - The art work is beautiful, though some characters are more cute and some are more disconcerting. I think the translated text itself works well.

Absolutely gorgeous. The art in this book is a marvel. It's magical and upliting—a true celebration of the seasons. Like the art, the story is also a beautiful reflection of the changing of the seasons. But the art. Have I mentioned how much I love the art?! It really is exceptional.

What a delightful and colourful book! The illustrations are beautiful, I like how they are centred on the pages, bold and bright. The story has a wonderful flow, reading it to my kids was fun. They like to repetition and rhyming. This is a lovely story illustrating how our seasons flow into each other, each taking their turn in taking us through a different journey.

A book of much credit – although while I'm crediting the illustrator with being really very good indeed, and with the translators for creating a wonderful poem, I can't pretend to know what the original writing was like. This slightly wordy picture book is a rhyme celebrating all the seasons – a nice chorus-like structure takes us from one to the next in turn, who is always asleep – Spring sleeps through Winter, and while Spring is active Summer is yet to wake, and so on. But each in turn comes up and does their thing, allowing us to celebrate with them anything from the blossoms and the "berries fit to squeeze" to the "last wasp of the year", which must be a first in children's literature.
As I say it's not the lightest textually – sometimes we get four long lines of couplets on the page, and in relatively small print, so this would be one to share perhaps. But the visuals are the selling point, humanising the quarters of the year so well and with such fine detail, and showing the seasons and other characters in bed so richly. Everything is rich and decadent for the eyes, and while the rhythm and line length can stumble at times, it's almost that for the ears too when using this as a read-aloud. A great success, and a strong four stars at least.

Just a beautiful illustrated book. My daughter loved this one. And we’ve enjoyed reading it multiple times I will be recommending it!

This is such a beautifully illustrated and written children’s book! My son loves rhyming narration and t kept his interest until the end. He loved looking at the pictures and pointing things out, like the flowers.

Such an adorable kids book. I truly enjoyed it as an adult loved looking at the pictures and really enjoyed the message at the end.

I greatly enjoyed this translation of A Dream For Every Season, originally written by Haddy Njle and illustrated by Lisa Alsato, This picture book, is a perfect bedtime book for young readers, that talks about the different seasons, and how even the seasons have to go to sleep as do we. This is written at a level that is easy for little learners to understand, and also uses rhyming as well as words that will appeal to different senses. I appreciated the beautiful illustrations that accompany the book, as well as the different examples of things that the children will see in the various seasons. I can see this being an enjoyable book that little ones and their families will be able to read again and again!
Thank you to NetGalley, as well as to the author, illustrator, publisher, and translator of this book for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A very catchy book with some very beautiful illustrations. My daughter enjoyed the read & would recommend to other children to read.
Thank you to Netgalley & the publisher for an e copy of this beautiful book.