UNDER THE MOON
by Dyan Sheldon & illustrated by Gary Blythe
The team that collaborated on the widely praised The Whales' Song (1991) essays a theme explored most notably in George Ella Lyons's Dreamplace (1993) and Who Came Down That Road (1992). Here, finding an arrowhead sets little Jenny to dreaming of the Plains Indians who once occupied the site; after a day imagining their presence, she sleeps out and, in a vivid dream, returns the arrowhead to them. Both the straightforward text and the British artist's oil paintings capture the child's sense of wonder, while Blythe's expansive, romantically luminous art is sure to attract admirers even though Jenny's yard resembles an English garden more than it does a suburban midwestern setting. Pretty, but not essential. (Picture book. 4-8)