Ben's Dream

Ben's dream began as the steady rhythm of the rain lulled him into drowsiness when he should have been studying for a geography test on great monuments of the world. But just as Ben was dropping off to sleep, a flood of waters shook his house from its very foundation and set it adrift on a round-the-world course, leading Ben past the incredible structures that had merely been pictures on the pages of his book a moment earlier. But as the reader, along with Ben, observes the monuments from this unique perspective, details within Chris Van Allsburg's artwork soon reveal themselves to be clues to another structure of meaning within the story. Which is real and which is an illusion? That is for the clever reader to decipher from this beguiling book be an award-winning author.