Books like Marianne dreams by Catherine Storr
Marianne is confined to bed by an illness that will take months to recover from. With an old pencil from her grandmother's workbox, she sketches a house complete with a garden and a fence. When she falls asleep, her drawing becomes real, but the house lacks a door handle, keeping Marianne out. As her health improves, she begins lessons with Miss Chesterfield and meets a boy named Mark, who has polio. Marianne refines her drawing by adding a door handle and a boy in an upstairs window. Though the house now has a door, there are no stairs, so she can't reach Mark. During her dreams she encounters the boy in the upstairs room, where he cannot use his legs. The story follows their attempts to navigate a world where the lines between drawings, dreams, and reality become increasingly blurred.
First publish date: 1958
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Catherine Storr
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