Dreamguardians

Angeliki Darlasi

Isbn:

978-960-16-1099-3

Age Group:

10-12 years

Category:

Children's Fiction & Novels

Number of pages:

184

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BOOK

Dreamguardians ENG (excerpt)

Greek State Award for Children’s Fiction (2005)

Is there, in another time and space, somebody who guards our dreams? Is there somebody who may preserve the dreams of the world alive? Who is protecting us from nightmares?

In a far away land, beyond the edge of the world as we know it, a land lost in the depth of mind and forgotten in the vastness of the heart, a land which is not mapped in any map, perhaps might there be… Dreamguardians. These people are quite the same as common people, with the difference that they have strong and big, glass-made wings, in order to fly the peoples’ dreams high, traveling in magical dreamspace.

In their land, the Land of Dreamguardians, Ersi is born. Her name (in ancient Greek) means “dewdrop”. Ersi in contrast with the other Dreamguardians, has small and weak wings. Does this mean that she is not going to be able to fly, to protect dreams? Is any child in the Land of Men going to be left behind without dreams?

“Dream-guardians” is a fairy tale, similar to life; a fairy-tale about the right to be “different”.

“Dream-guardians” is a fairy-tale for children (above 9 years old) and for grown ups who want to add in their every-day life the smell and taste of a dream.

*Full Spanish translation available

AUTHOR

Angeliki Darlasi

Angeliki Darlasi was born in Athens where she resides. She is a writer, playwright, director and tutor (for adults and children) in Creative Writing and Theatre.

She holds a BA in Theatre Studies (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and an MA in Performance Studies (Central School of Speech and Drama, London).

Her first novel, The Dream Guardians (2004) was awarded the Greek National Prize for Children/Youth Literature (2005). Her second novel When we hid an angel (2009) was awarded the Greek IBBY’S prize for Youth Literature, and was enlisted in White Ravens list, 2010. Her theatre adaptation of this novel was awarded the Greek National Prize for Children/Youth Theatre. Her illustrated story The tree that had wings (2010) and her novel My name is …Cloud (2012) were shortlisted for all the Greek literature awards. Badboy (2014) was awarded the Greek IBBY award for the text and illustration and she was, also, distinguished with an author nomination in the IBBY Honour List, 2016. Badboy has been published in Turkey and in Korea.

Angeliki Darlasi is participating in a Playwrights’ Think Tank held by the “Union of The Theatres of Europe”, representing Greece in an international theatre project.

She is co-founder of the art group “The other side” and of the independent music label “Puzzlemusik”.

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